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(B. A. I. Order 211.) Issued July 30, 1914. 

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY, 
A. D. MELVIN, Chief of Bureau. 



REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MEAT INSPEC- 
TION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE. 



EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 1914. 

(EXCEPT REGULATION 27, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1915.) 



Issued under authority conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture by the Act of Congress approved 
June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 674-679), the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1260-1265), 
and the Act of Congress approved October 3, 1913 (38 Stat., 114, 152, 159). 







WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1914. 



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(B. A. I. Order 211.) Issued July 30, 1914. 

U. S. DEPARTMENT, OF AGRICULTURE, 

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY, 
A. D. MELVIN, Chief of Bureau. 



REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MEAT INSPEC- 
TION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 1914. 

(EXCEPT REGULATION 27, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1915.) 




Issued under authority conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture by the Act of Congress approved 
June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 674-679), the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1307 (34 Stat., 1260-1265), 
and the Act of Congress approved October 3, 1913 (38 Stat., 114, 152, 159). 




WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1914. 






U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, D. C, July 15, 191 4- 

Under the authority conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture 
by the act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, entitled "An act 
maldng appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the 
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven" (34 
United States Statutes at Large, pages 674 to 679), by the act of 
Congress approved March 4, 1907, entitled "An act making appropria- 
tions for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending 
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight" (34 United States 
Statutes at Large, pages 1260 to 1265), and by the act of Congress 
approved October 3, 1913, entitled "An act to reduce tariff duties 
and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes" 
(38 United States Statutes at Large, pages 114, 152, 159), the following 
regulations are hereby made, which for purposes of identification are 
designated as B. A. I. Order 211. Regulations 1 to 26, inclusive, 
shall become and be effective on and after November 1, 1914, and 
regulation 27 shall become and be effective on and after January 
1, 1915. 

Upon regulations 1 to 26 becoming effective, B. A. I. Order 150, 
dated April 1, 1908, and all amendments thereto shall be superseded 
thereby, and upon regulation 27 becoming effective, B. A. I. Order 
202, dated October 4, 1913, and the amendment thereto shall be 
superseded thereby. ■ , 



D. F. Houston, 

Secretary. 



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CONTENTS. 



Regulation 1. Definitions 5 

2. Scope of inspection 8 

3. Organization of foi'ce 8 

4. Applications for inspection or exemption; retail butchers, retail 

dealers, and farmers; declarations for inedible products es- 
tablishments 9 

5. Official numbers and inauguration and withdrawal of inspec- 

tion 11 

6. Assignment of bureau employees . . 12 

7. Facilities for inspection 13 

8. Sanitation 15 

9. Ante-mortem inspection 19 

10. Post-mortem inspection 22 

11. Disposal of diseased carcasses and parts 25 

12. Carcasses of animals slaughtered without ante-mortem inspec- 

tion 34 

13. Tank rooms and tanks 34 

14. Tanking and denaturing condemned carcasses and products.. 35 

15. Rendering carcasses and parts into lard and tallow, and other 

sterilization 36 

16. Marking, branding, and identifying meat and products 36 

17. Labeling 41 

18. Reinspection and preparation of meat and products 48 

19. Market inspection 54 

20. Reports 55 

21. Appeals 55 

22. Cooperation with local authorities 55 

23. Bribery, counterfeiting, etc 56 

24. Export stamps and certificates 56 

25. Transportation ' 59 

26. Food and drugs act 69 

27. Imported meat and products 69 

Laws under which the foregoing regulations are made: 

The meat inspection act " 82 

The imported meat act 85 

Index 87 

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REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MEAT INSPECTION OF THE 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICLUTURE. 



REGULATION 1. DEFINITIONS. 

Section 1. For the purposes of these regulations the following 
words, phrases, names, and terms shall be construed, respectively, 
to mean — 

Paragraph 1. The meat inspection act, or act of June 30, 1906, 
or act of Congress of June 30, 1906: "An Act Making appropriations 
for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven/' 'approved June 30, 1906 (34 
United States Statutes at Large, pages 674 to 679), as reenacted by 
"An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture 
for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight/' 
approved March 4, 1907 (34 United States Statutes at Large, pages 
1260 to 1265). 

Paragraph, 2. The imported meat act: The "free list" clause and 
paragraph 545 of an act entitled "An Act To reduce tariff duties and 
to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," 
approved October 3, 1913 (38 United States Statutes at Large, pages 
114, 152, 159). 

Paragraphs. The food and drugs act: "An Act For preventing 
the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded 
or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and 
for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes," approved June 
30, 1906 (34 United States Statutes at Large, pages 708 to 772), as 
amended by "An Act To amend section eight of the food and drugs act 
approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six," approved August 
23, 1912 (37 United States Statutes at Large, pages 416 and 417), and 
by "An Act To amend section eight of an act entitled 'An Act For pre- 
venting the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or mis- 
branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and 
liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes/ 
approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six," approved March 
3, 1913 (37 United States Statutes at Large, page 732). 

Paragraph 4- The department: The United States Department 
of Agriculture. ^^ 

Paragraph 5. Bureau: The Bureau of Animal Industry of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 



6 KEG. 1. DEFINITIONS. 

Paragraph 6. Inspector : An inspector of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry. 

Paragraph 7 . Bureau employees : Inspectors and all other indi- 
viduals employed in the Bureau of Animal Industry who are author- 
ized by the chief of bureau to do any work or perform any duty in 
connection with meat inspection. 

Paragraph 8. Official establishment: Any slaughtering, meat 
canning, curing, smoking, salting, packing, rendering, or other 
similar establishment at which inspection is maintained under these 
regulations. 

Paragraph 9. Official station: One or more official establishments 
included under a single supervision. 

Paragraph 10. " Inspected and passed," or "IT. S. inspected 
and passed," or " U. S. inspected and passed under the act of Con- 
gress of June 30, 1906," or " TJ. S. inspected and passed by Depart- 
ment of Agriculture," or any authorized abbreviations thereof: That 
the carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, meat products, or meat food 
products so marked have been inspected and passed under these 
regulations, and that at the time they were inspected, passed, and 
so marked they were found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and 
fit for human food. 

Paragraph 11. "Passed for sterilization": That the carcasses, 
parts of carcasses, meat, meat products, or meat food products so 
marked have been inspected and passed on condition that they be 
rendered into lard or tallow as prescribed by regulation 15 or other- 
wise sterilized by methods approved by the chief of bureau. 

Paragraph 12. " IT. S. inspected and condemned," or any author- 
ized abbreviation thereof: That the carcasses, parts of carcasses, 
meat, meat products, or meat food products so marked are unsound, 
unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food. 

Paragraph IS. " U. S. retained ": That the article so marked is 
held for further examination by an inspector to determine its disposal. 

Paragraph 14- "U. S. suspect," or any authorized abbreviation 
thereof: That the animal so marked is suspected of being affected 
with a disease or condition which may require its condemnation, in 
whole or in part, when slaughtered, and is subject to further examin- 
ation by an inspector to determine its disposal. 

Paragraph 15. "U. S. condemned" : That the animal so marked has 
been inspected and found to be immature, or in a dying condition, or 
to have died otherwise than by slaughter, or to be affected with any 
other condition or with any disease that will require condemnation 
of its carcass. 

Paragraph 16. "U. S. refused entry": That the article so marked 
offered for importation, contains a preservative not permitted by 
these regulations, but contains no substance in conflict with the laws 



REG. 1. DEFINITIONS. 7 

of the foreign country from which exported, and has not been found 
to be otherwise unsound, unheathful, unwholesome, or unfit for 
human food. 

Paragraph 17. Inspection legend: A mark, or a statement, author- 
ized by these regulations, on an article or on the container of an 
article, indicating that the article has been inspected and passed for 
food by an inspector. 

Paragraph 18. Carcass: All parts, including viscera, of a slaugh- 
tered animal that are capable of being used for human food. 

Paragraph 19. Primal parts: The usual sections, cuts, or parts of 
the dressed carcass commonly known in the trade, such as sides, 
quarters, shoulders, hams, backs, bellies, beef tongues, and beef 
livers, before they have been cut, shredded, or otherwise subdivided 
preliminary to use in the manufacture of meat food products. 

Paragraph 20. Meat product : Any edible part of the carcass of any 
cattle, sheep, swine, or goat, which is not manufactured, cured, 
smoked, processed, or otherwise treated. 

Paragraph 21 . Meat food product : Any article of food or any 
article which enters into the composition of food for human consump- 
tion, which is derived or prepared, in whole or in part, from any por- 
tion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goat, if such portion 
is all or a considerable and definite portion of the article, except such 
articles as organo-therapeutic substances, meat juice, meat extract, 
and the like, which are only for medicinal purposes and are advertised 
only to the medical profession. 

Paragraph 22. Meat and products : Carcasses, parts of carcasses, 
meat, products, food products, meat products, and meat food products 
of, or derived from, cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, which are capable 
of being used as food by man. 

Paragraph 23. Meat or product : Any part or all of meat and prod- 
ucts. 

Paragraph 24- Immediate container, or true container : The unit 
can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in which any 
meat or product is customarily delivered to consumers. 

Paragraph 25. Shipping container, or outside container : The box, 
bag, barrel, crate, or other receptacle or covering inclosing any meat 
or product packed in two or more immediate or true containers. 

Paragraph 26. Person : Natural persons, individuals, firms, part- 
nerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations, and 
every agent, officer, or employee of any thereof. This term shall 
import both the plural and the singular as the case may be. 

Paragraph 27. Subsidiary : Any individual, firm, partnership, cor- 
poration, company, or association, in whose name any business is 
done, controlled, or owned, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, 
by another. 



8 KEGS. 2, 3. SCOPE OP INSPECTION ; ORGANIZATION. 

Section 2. Wherever in these regulations the phrase "inspected 
and passed under the provisions of (or according to) the act of Con- 
gress of June 30, 1906" is authorized or required to be used, the phrase 
"U. S. inspected and passed by Department of Agriculture " may be 
substituted therefor. 

Section 3, On and after three years from the date of the order adopt- 
ing these regulations the phrase "inspected and passed under the 
provisions of (or according to) the act of Congress of June 30, 1906" 
shall not be used as an inspection legend, unless hereafter expressly 
authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture upon its being shown to his 
satisfaction that continuance of the use thereof for a longer period 
is equitable and is rendered necessary in order to utilize stocks of 
labels on hand or ordered at the time this regulation takes effect. 

REGULATION 2. SCOPE OF INSPECTION. 

Section 1. Every establishment in which cattle, sheep, swine, or 
goats are slaughtered for transportation or sale as articles of inter- 
state or foreign commerce, or in which carcasses, parts of carcasses, 
meat, meat products, or meat food products of, or derived from, 
cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are, wholly or in part, canned, cured, 
smoked, salted, packed; rendered, or otherwise prepared for trans- 
portation or sale as articles of interstate or foreign commerce which 
are capable of being used as food for man, shall have inspection under 
these regulations, except as expressly exempted by regulation 4. 

Section 2. All cattle, sheep, swine, and goats and all meat and 
products entering an establishment at which inspection is required 
by these regulations, and all meat and products prepared, in whole 
or in part, therein, shall be inspected, handled, prepared, and marked 
as required by these regulations. 

REGULATION 3. ORGANIZATION OF FORCE. 

Section 1. Meat inspection is conducted, under the direction of 
the Secretary of Agriculture, by the Bureau of Animal Industry. All 
permanent employees engaged in the work of meat inspection are 
appointed upon certification of the United States Civil Service Com- 
mission that they have passed the examination prescribed by that 
commission. These employees are classified as shown in the follow- 
ing sections of this regulation. Promotions are made on the basis of 
efficiency, deportment, and length of service. 

Section 2. Inspectors in charge. These are inspectors assigned to 
supervise and perform official work at each official station. Such em- 
ployees report directly to the chief of bureau and are chosen by reason 
of their fitness for responsibility as determined by their records in the 
service. At stations where slaughtering is conducted, only veterinary 
inspectors are placed in charge. 



KEGS. 3, 4. ORGANIZATION J INSPECTION OR EXEMPTION. 9 

Section 3. Veterinary inspectors. All applicants examined for 
these positions must be graduates of veterinary colleges, accredited by 
the United States Civil Service Commission, having a course of not 
less than three years leading to a degree. Veterinary inspectors per- 
form all final post-mortem examinations and enforce the sanitary 
requirements in their respective departments, under the direction of 
the inspector in charge. 

Section 4. Traveling veterinary inspectors. These employees in- 
spect official stations and the conduct of operations and ascertain 
whether the regulations and instructions governing meat inspection 
are properly observed. They also confer with and instruct bureau 
employees with a view to uniformity and efficiency of the service, and 
report thereon, with recommendations, to the chief of bureau. 

Section 5. Laboratory inspectors. These employees possess tech- 
nical education and training in the microscopical and chemical exami- 
nation of meat and products, and their inspections are conducted in 
laboratories located at various slaughtering centers. Pathological 
laboratories are also maintained, to which diseased specimens may be 
sent, when necessary, for diagnosis. 

Section 6. lay inspectors. These employees are laymen who assist 
veterinary inspectors in ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections, 
supervise the curing, canning, packing, and other preparation, han- 
dling, and marking of meat and products, examine such articles to 
detect unsound or unfit conditions, assist in the enforcement of sani- 
tary requirements, and perform various other duties. 

REGULATION 4. APPLICATIONS FOR INSPECTION OR EXEMPTION; RE- 
TAIL BUTCHERS, RETAIL DEALERS, AND FARMERS; DECLARATIONS 

FOR INEDIBLE PRODUCTS ESTABLISHMENTS. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. The proprietor or operator of each estab- 
lishment of the kind specified in section 1 of regulation 2 shall make 
application to the Secretary of Agriculture for inspection or for exemp- 
tion from inspection, or shall file with the Secretary of Agriculture the 
declaration prescribed by paragraph 1 of section 6 of this regulation; 
Every application and declaration under this regulation shall be made 
on a form furnished by the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, 
D. C. In cases where inspection or exemption is already in effect, 
new applications for inspection or exemption shall not be required. 
In cases of change of ownership or change of location, a new applica- 
tion shall be made. 

Paragraph 2. Triplicate copies of plans, properly drawn to scale, 
and of specifications, including plumbing and drainage, of plants shall 
accompany, and the prints or diagrams required by section 2 of regu- 
lation 13 should accompany, applications for inspection. 



10 EEG. 4. INSPECTION OB EXEMPTION". 

Paragraph 3. Each application shall specify the names and ad- 
dresses of all the applicant's subsidiaries doing any of the business 
described in section 1 of regulation 2 and the location of each estab- 
lishment of such subsidiaries. Each subsidiary making an applica- 
tion shall specify the name and address of the person, firm, corpora- 
tion, or association of which it is a subsidiary. 

Paragraph 4- Notice in writing shall be given to each applicant 
granted inspection, specifying the establishment to which the same 
applies. 

Paragraph 5. Inspection or exemption may be refused, or if granted 
may be revoked, for any false statement in the application therefor. 

Section 2. Retail butchers and retail dealers in meat and meat 
food products, supplying their customers, upon making application, 
pursuant to section 1 of this regulation, may be exempted from in- 
spection. To each one so exempted a numbered certificate of ex- 
emption shall be furnished for use with transportation agencies to 
procure the movement of his products in interstate or foreign com- 
merce. No certificate shall be issued unless all the premises on which 
the products are prepared and handled are maintained in a sanitary 
condition. Failure by certificate holders to maintain sanitary condi- 
tions or to conform to such of these regulations as apply to them shall 
be cause for withdrawal of exemption and the cancellation of certifi- 
cates. Such exempted establishments shall conform to the same 
regulations as govern official establishments in regard to labeling and 
the use of dyes, chemicals, and preservatives. 

Section 3. No holder of a certificate of exemption shall use the 
same for any purpose except for making shipments in supplying his 
own customers. 

Section 4. The carcasses and products of animals slaughtered by 
any farmer on the farm, provided they can be identified as such and 
are sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, and other- 
wise meet the requirements of these regulations, may be transported 
in interstate or foreign commerce under the provisions of section 8 of 
regulation 25. In order to procure the transportation of such 
products, a farmer need not apply for exemption from inspection. 

Section 5. Inspectors shall make inspections to ascertain whether 
any of these regulations applying to retail butchers, retail dealers, 
farmers, or other persons has been violated. 

Section 6. Paragraph 1. The proprietor or operator of each grease 
rendering or grease refining establishment, and of every other establish- 
ment which has not been granted inspection or exemption, which pre- 
pares or ships any article or articles derived wholly or in part from 
cattle, sheep, swine, or goats for interstate or foreign commerce, or in 



REGS. 4, 5. INSPECTION OR EXEMPTION; OFFICIAL NUMBER. 11 

the District of Columbia, a Territory, or other place under the jurisdic- 
tion of the United States, which article or articles it is claimed are not 
capable of being used as food by man, shall file with the Secretary of 
Agriculture a declaration that none of such articles are for human 
consumption, nor will be sold or shipped from such establishment 
otherwise than in compliance with these regulations, and that no 
article for human consumption derived wholly or in part from cattle, 
sheep, swine, or goats will be prepared at or in such establishment, or 
will be sold or shipped therefrom. Such establishments may be 
inspected at any time to ascertain whether any article derived wholly 
or in part from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats is prepared therein for 
human consumption, or whether any declaration filed or offerect for 
filing is false in any particular. 

Paragraph 2. The proprietor or operator of each establishment 
which has been granted inspection or exemption and which prepares 
therein any article or articles derived wholly or in part from cattle, 
sheep, swine, or goats for interstate or foreign commerce, or in the 
District of Columbia, a Territory, or other place under the jurisdiction 
of the United States, which article or articles it is claimed are not 
capable of being used as food by man, shall file with the Secretary of 
Agriculture a declaration that none of such articles are for human 
consumption nor will be sold or shipped from such establishment 
otherwise than in compliance with these regulations. 

Paragraph 3. The Secretary of Agriculture may refuse to file, or if 
previously filed may withdraw from his files and cancel, any declara- 
tion which is false in any particular or the terms of which are violated 
in any respect. 

REGULATION 5. OFFICIAL NUMBERS AND INAUGURATION AND WITH- 
DRAWAL OF INSPECTION. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. To each establishment granted inspec- 
tion an official number shall be assigned. Such number shall be 
used to identify all inspected and passed meat and products pre- 
pared in the establishment. 

Paragraph 2. Two or more official establishments under the same 
ownership or control may be granted the same official number, pro- 
vided a serial letter is added in each case to identify each establish- 
ment and the products thereof. 

Paragraph 3. No meat or product shall be handled or prepared in 
an official establishment for a subsidiary of the proprietor or operator, 
nor shall any article handled or prepared therein be sold or trans- 
ported in interstate or foreign commerce by or in the name of a 
subsidiary of the proprietor or operator, unless such subsidiary is 
named in an application of the establishment for inspection, and is 
granted inspection in such establishment, under these regulations. 



12 BEGS. 5, 6. OFFICIAL DUMBER ; ASSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEES. 

Section 2. Each official establishment shall be separate and dis- 
tinct from any unofficial establishment in which any meat or product 
is handled. 

Section 3. Inspection shall not be begun if an establishment is 
not in a sanitary condition nor unless the establishment provides and 
agrees to maintain adequate facilities for conducting such inspection. 

Section 4. When an application for inspection is granted, the 
inspector in charge shall, at or prior to the inauguration of inspection, 
inform the proprietor or operator of the establishment of the require- 
ments of these regulations. If the establishment, at the time inspec- 
tion is inaugurated, contains any meat or product which has not 
theretofore been inspected, passed, and marked in compliance with 
these regulations, the identity of the same shall be maintained and 
it shall not be transported or offered for transportation in interstate or 
foreign commerce, or otherwise dealt with, as inspected and passed 
under these regulations. The establishment shall adopt and enforce 
all necessary measures, and shall comply with all such directions as 
the inspector in charge may prescribe, for carrying out the purposes 
of this section. 

Section 5. Inspection may be withdrawn from any official 
establishment which violates or fails to comply with any provision of 
the meat inspection act or of these regulations. 

Section 6. Inspectors and other bureau employees shall report to 
the inspector in charge all violations and failures under section 5 of 
this regulation of which they have knowledge, and the inspector in 
charge shall report the same to the chief of bureau. 

REGULATION 6. ASSIGNMENT OF BUREAU EMPLOYEES. 

Section 1. The chief of bureau shall designate an inspector in 
charge of the inspection at each official station, and assign to said 
inspector such assistants as may be necessary. 

Section 2. For the purpose of any examination or inspection, 
bureau employees shall have access at all times, by day or night, 
whether the establishment be operated or not, to every part of any 
official establishment to which they are assigned. 

Section 3. Each bureau employee will be furnished with a num- 
bered official badge, which he shall not allow to leave his possession. 
This badge shaft be sufficient identification to entitle him to admit- 
tance at all regular entrances and to all parts of the establishment and 
premises to which he is assigned, and to any place, at any time, for 
the purpose of making an inspection pursuant to section 3 of regula- 
tion 23. 



REG. 1. FACILITIES FOR INSPECTION. 13 

Section 4. No bureau employee shall be detailed for duty at an 
establishment where any member of his family is employed by the 
establishment. Bureau employees are forbidden to solicit, for any- 
one, employment at any official establishment, or "by any officer, 
manager, or employee thereof. 

REGULATION 7. FACILITIES FOE INSPECTION- 

Section 1. Office room, including light and heat, shall be pro- 
vided by official establishments, rent free, for the exclusive use, for 
official purposes, of the inspector and other bureau employees assigned 
thereto. The room or rooms set apart for this purpose shall meet 
with the approval of the inspector in charge and shall be conveniently 
located, properly ventilated, and provided with lockers suitable for 
the protection and storage of bureau supplies and with facilities 
suitable for the dressing of bureau employees. 

Section 2. Each official establishment shall inform the inspector 
in charge, or his assistant, when work in each department has been 
concluded for the day, and of the day and hour when work will be 
resumed therein. Whenever any meat or product is to be over- 
hauled or otherwise handled in an official establishment during 
unusual hours, the establishment shall, a reasonable time in advance, 
notify the inspector in charge, or his assistant, of the day and hour 
when such work will be commenced, and such articles shall not be 
so handled except after such notice has been given. No department 
of an official establishment shall be operated except under the super- 
vision of a bureau employee. All slaughtering of animals and prepa- 
ration of meat and products shall be done within reasonable hours, 
and with reasonable speed, the facilities of the establishment being 
considered. No shipment of any meat or product shall be made 
from an official establishment until after due notice has been given 
to the inspector in charge or his assistant. 

Section 3. When one inspector is detailed to conduct the work 
at two or more official establishments where few animals are slaugh- 
tered or where but a small quantity of any meat or product is pre- 
pared, the inspector in charge may designate the hours during which 
such establishment may be operated. 

Section 4. No work shall be performed at official establishments 
during any day on which such work is prohibited by the law of the 
State or Territory or District of Columbia in which the establishment 
is located. However, the department requires that it be judicially 
determined that such work is so prohibited. 

Section 5. When required by the chief of bureau or the inspector 
in charge, the following facilities and conditions, and such others as 
be essential to efficient conduct of inspection, shall be provided 
bv each official establishment; 



14 REG. 1. FACILITIES FOR INSPECTION. 

(a) Satisfactory pens, equipment, and assistants for conducting 
ante-mortem inspection and for separating, marking, and holding 
apart from passed animals those marked U U. S. suspect" and those 
marked "U. S. condemned." 

(6) Sufficient natural light, and abundant artificial light at times 
of the day when natural light may not be adequate, at places for 
inspection. Such places shall be kept sufficiently free of steam and 
vapors for inspection to be properly made. 

(c) Racks, receptacles, or other suitable devices for retaining such 
parts as the head, tongue, tail, thymus gland, and viscera, and all 
parts and blood to be used in the preparation of meat food products or 
medical products, until after the post-mortem examination is com- 
pleted, in order that they may be identified in case of condemnation of 
the carcass; equipment, trucks, and receptacles for the handling of 
viscera of slaughtered animals so as to prevent contact with the floor; 
trucks, racks, marked receptacles, tables, or other necessary equip- 
ment for the separate a,nd sanitary handling of carcasses or parts 
passed for sterilization. 

(d) Tables, benches, and other equipment on. which inspection is 
performed, of such design, material, and construction as to enable 
bureau employees to conduct their inspection in a ready, efficient, 
and cleanly manner. 

(e) Sanitary water-tight metal trucks or receptacles for holding 
and handling diseased carcasses and parts; such trucks or receptacles 
to be marked in a conspicuous manner with the phrase "U. S. con- 
demned," in letters not less than 2 inches high, and, when required 
by the inspector in charge, to be equipped with facilities for locking 
or sealing. 

(/) Adequate arrangements, including disinfectants, for cleansing 
and disinfecting hands, for sterilizing all implements used in dressing 
diseased carcasses, and for disinfecting hides, floors, and such other 
articles and places as may be contaminated by diseased carcasses or 
otherwise. 

(g) In establishments in which slaughtering is done, rooms, com- 
partments, or specially prepared open places, to be known as "final 
inspection places," at which the final inspection of retained carcasses 
shall be conducted. Final inspection places shall be sufficient in size 
and their rail arrangement and other equipment shall be adequate to 
prevent carcasses and parts passed for food or sterilization from being 
contaminated by contact with condemned carcasses or parts. They 
shall be equipped with hot water, stationary washstands, and sanitary 
tables and other apparatus essential to a ready, efficient, and sanitary 
conduct of the inspection. The floors shall be of sanitary construc- 
tion and shall have proper sewer connections, and when the final 
inspection place is part of a larger floor it shall be separated by a curb 
and railing. 



BEGS. *7, 8. FACILITIES FOR INSPECTION; SANITATION. 15 

(h) In each establishment at which any condemned article is held 
until a day subsequent to its condemnation, a suitably located room 
or compartment in which the same shall be placed. This room or 
compartment shall be secure, rat proof, and susceptible of being 
kept clean, including a sanitary disposal of the floor liquids. It shall 
be equipped for secure locking, and shall be held under a lock fur- 
nished by the department, the key of which shall not leave the cus- 
tody of a bureau employee. The door or doors of such room or com- 
partment shall be conspicuously marked with the phrase "U. S. con- 
demned," in letters not less than 2 inches high. 

(i) Rooms, compartments, and receptacles in such number and in 
such locations as the needs of the inspection in the establishment 
may require, in which carcasses and products may be held for further 
inspection. These shall be equipped for secure locking and shall be 
held under locks furnished by the department, the keys of which shall 
not leave the custody of bureau employees. Every such room, com- 
partment, or receptacle shall be conspicuously marked with the phrase 
"U. S. retained," in letters not less than 2 inches high. 

(j) Adequate facilities, including denaturing materials, for the 
proper disposal of condemned articles in accordance with these regu- 
lations. Tanks which, under these regulations, must be sealed shall 
be properly equipped for sealing as may be specified by the chief of 
bureau. 

(k) Docks and receiving rooms, to be designated by the establish- 
ment, with the approval of the inspector in charge, for the receipt 
and inspection of all meat and products as provided in section 4 of 
regulation 18. 

(I) Suitable lockers in which brands bearing the inspection legend 
shall be kept when not in use. All such lockers shall be equipped 
for locking with locks to be supplied by the department, the keys of 
which shall not leave the custody of bureau employees. 

Section 6. Inspectors shall furnish their own implements, such as 
knives, steels, and triers, for conducting inspection, and shall cleanse 
their hands and implements as prescribed by paragraph 3 of section 7 
of regulation 8. 

REGULATION 8. SANITATION, 

Section 1 . Prior to the inauguaration of inspection, an examina- 
tion of the establishment and premises shall be made by a bureau 
employee and the requirements for sanitation and the necessary 
facilities for inspection specified. 

Section 2. Triplicate copies of plans, properly drawn to scale, and 
of specifications, including plumbing and drainage, for remodeling 
plants of official establishments and for new structures, shall be sub- 
mitted to the chief of bureau in advance of construction. 



16 BEG. 8. SANITATION. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. Official establishments, establishments at 
which market inspection is conducted, and premises on or in winch 
any meat or product is prepared or handled by or for persons to whom 
certificates of exemption have been issued, shall be maintained in 
sanitary condition, and to this end the requirements of paragraphs 
2 to 8, inclusive, of this section shall be complied with. 

Paragraph 2. There shall be abundant light, both natural and arti- 
ficial, and sufficient ventilation for all rooms and compartments, to 
insure sanitary condition. 

Paragraph 3. There shall be an efficient drainage and plumbing 
system for the establishment and premises, and all drains "and gutters 
shall be properly installed with approved traps and vents. 

Paragraph 4- The water supply shall be ample, clean, and potable, 
with adequate facilities for its distribution in the plant. Every estab- 
lishment shall make known, and whenever required shall afford oppor- 
tunity for inspection of, the source of its water supply and the location 
and character of its reservoir and storage tanks. 

Paragraph 5. The floors, walls, ceilings, partitions, posts, doors, and 
other parts of all structures shall be of such materials, construc- 
tion, and finish as will make them susceptible of being readily, and 
thoroughly cleaned. The floors shall be kept water-tight. The rooms 
and compartments used for edible products shall be separate and 
distinct from those used for inedible products. 

Paragraph 6. The rooms and compartments in which any meat or 
product is prepared or handled shall be free from odors from dressing 
and toilet rooms, catch basins, hide cellars, casing rooms, inedible 
tank and fertilizer rooms, and stables. 

Paragraph 7 . Every practicable precaution shall be taken to keep 
establishments free of flies, rats, mice, and other vermin. The 
use of rat poisons is prohibited in rooms or compartments where 
any unpacked meat or product is stored or handled; but their use is 
not forbidden in hide cellars, inedible compartments, outbuildings, 
or similar places, or in storerooms containing canned or tierced 
products. So-called rat viruses shall not be used in any part of an 
establishment or the premises thereof. 

Paragraph 8. Dogs shall not be admitted into official establish- 
ments except, upon permission of the inspector in charge, for the 
purpose of destroying rats. Dogs which are admitted shall be kept 
free from tape-worm infestation. Such examinations shall be made 
to determine freedom from infestation as the chief of bureau may pre- 
scribe. Contamination by the excreta of these animals shall not be 
permitted, nor shall the dogs be allowed to eat the raw viscera of 
cattle, sheep, swine, or goats. 



REG. 8. SANITATION. 17 

Section 4. Adequate sanitary facilities and accommodations shall 
be furnished by every official establishment. Of these the following 
are specifically required: 

(a) Dressing rooms, toilet rooms, and urinals, sufficient in number, 
ample in size, conveniently located, properly ventilated, and meeting 
all requirements as to sanitary construction and equipment. These 
shall be separate from the rooms and compartments in which meat 
and products are prepared, stored, or handled. Where both sexes 
are employed, separate facilities shall be provided. 

(b) Modern lavatory accommodations, including running hot and 
cold water, soap, towels, etc. These shall be placed in or near toilet 
and urinal rooms and also at such other places in the establishment as 
may be essential to assure cleanliness of all persons handling any meat 
or product. 

(c) Properly located facilities for disinfecting and cleansing utensils 
and hands of all persons handling any meat or product. 

(d) Cuspidors of such shape as not readily to be upset and of such 
material as to be readily disinfected. They shall be sufficient in num- 
ber and accessibly placed in all rooms and places designated by the 
inspector in charge, and all persons who expectorate shall be required 
to use them. 

Section 5. Equipment and utensils used for preparing, processing, 
and otherwise handling any meat or product shall be of such materials 
and construction as will make them susceptible of being readily and 
thoroughly cleaned and such as will insure strict cleanliness in the 
preparation and handling of all meat and products. Trucks and 
receptacles used for inedible products shall bear some conspicuous 
and distinctive mark and shall not be used for handling edible 
products. 

Section 6. Rooms, compartments, places, equipment, and utensils 
used for preparing, storing, or otherwise handling any meat or prod- 
uct, and all other parts of the establishment, shall be kept clean 
and sanitary. 

Section 7, Paragraph 1. Operations and procedures involving the 
preparation, storing, or handling of any meat or product shall be 
strictly in accord with cleanly and sanitary methods. 

Paragraph 2. Rooms and compartments in which inspections are 
made and those in which animals are slaughtered or any meat or 
product is processed or prepared shall be kept sufficiently free of 
steam and vapors to enable bureau employees to make inspections 
and to insure cleanly operations. The walls and ceilings of rooms 
and compartments under refrigeration shall be kept reasonably free 
from moisture. 

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18 KEG. 8. SANITATION. 

Paragraph 3. Butchers and others who dress or handle diseased 
carcasses or parts shall, before handling or dressing other carcasses 
or parts, cleanse their hands of grease, immerse them in a prescribed 
disinfectant, and rinse them in clean water. Implements used in 
dressing diseased carcasses shall be thoroughly cleansed hi boiling 
water or in a prescribed disinfectant, followed by rinsing in clean 
water. The employees of the establishment who handle any meat 
or product shall keep their hands clean, and in all cases after visiting 
the toilet rooms or urinals shall wash their hands before handling 
any meat or product or implements used in the preparation of the 
same. 

Paragraph 4- Aprons, frocks, and other outer clothing worn by 
persons who handle any meat or product shall be of material that is 
readily cleansed, and only clean garments shall be worn. Knife scab- 
bards shall be kept clean. 

Paragraph 5. Such practices as spitting on whetstones, placing 
skewers or knives in the mouth, inflating lungs or casings, or testing 
with air from the mouth such receptacles as tierces, kegs, casks, and 
the like, containing or intended as containers of any meat or product, 
are prohibited. Only mechanical means may be used for testing. 

Section 8. The wagons and cars in which any meat or product is 
transported shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Wagons 
used in transferring loose meat and products between official estab- 
lishments shall be closed or so covered that the contents shall be kept 
clean. 

Section 9. Paragraph 1. Second-hand tubs, barrels, and boxes 
intended for use as containers of any meat or product shall be in- 
spected when received at the establishment and before they are 
cleaned. Those showing evidence of misuse rendering them unfit to 
serve as containers for food products shall be rejected. The use of 
those showing no evidence of previous misuse may be allowed after 
they have been thoroughly and properly cleaned. Steaming, after 
thorough scrubbing and rinsing, is essential to cleaning tubs and 
barrels. 

Paragraph 2. Interiors of tank cars about to be used for the trans- 
portation of any meat food product shall be carefully inspected for 
cleanliness even though the last previous content was edible. Lye 
and soda solutions used in cleaning must be thoroughly removed by 
rinsing with clean water. In their examinations bureau emploj^ees 
shall enter the tank with a light and examine all parts of the interior. 

Section 10. The outer premises of every official establishment, 
embracing docks and areas where cars and wagons are loaded, and 
the driveways, approaches, yards, pens, and alleys, shall be properly 
drained and kept in clean and orderly condition. All catch basins 



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on the premises shall be of such construction and location and be 
given such attention as will insure their being kept in acceptable 
condition as regards odors and cleanliness. The accumulation on 
the premises of establishments of any material in which flies may 
breed, such as hog hair, bones, paunch contents, or manure, is for- 
bidden. No nuisance shall be allowed in any establishment or on its 
premises. 

Section 11. No establishment shall employ in any department 
where any meat or product is handled or prepared any person affected 
with tuberculosis or other communicable disease. 

Section 12. When necessary, bureau employees shall attach a 
"U. S. rejected" tag to any equipment or utensil which is insanitary, 
or the use of which would be in violation of these regulations. No 
equipment or utensil so tagged shall again be used until made sani- 
tary. Such tag so placed shall not be removed by anyone other than 
a bureau employee. 

REGULATION 9. ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. An ante-mortem examination, and inspec- 
tion shall be made of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats about to be 
slaughtered in an official establishment before their slaughter shall be 
allowed. 

Paragraph 2. Such ante-mortem inspection shall be made in pens 
on the premises of the establishment in which the animals are about 
to be slaughtered, except as provided in paragraph 3 of this section. 

Paragraph 3. At each official station where there are public stock- 
yards , upon approval of the chief of bureau, ante-mortem inspection 
may be conducted at the scales or in the pens of the yards. Inspec- 
tion under this paragraph shall be performed only on animals pre- 
sented for inspection by an official establishment. Except as pro- 
vided in section 7 of this regulation, every animal marked as a suspect 
on such inspection shall be slaughtered at an official establishment of 
the official station at which the inspection was made. If any such 
animal be not so slaughtered or disposed of in compliance with sec- 
tion 7 of this regulation, then thereafter no ante-mortem inspection 
shall be done under this paragraph for the official establishment 
which presented the animal for inspection, and ante-mortem inspec- 
tion for that establishment shall be performed only in pens on its 
premises in accordance with paragraph 2 of this section. Upon the 
chief of bureau being satisfied at any time that inspection at scales 
or in pens of public stockyards is being used for speculative or other 
unfair or unjust purposes by an official establishment or by anyone 
in whose behalf it presents animals for inspection under this para- 
graph, then he shall require ante-mortem inspection for that estab- 



20 KEG. 9. ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION. 

lishment thereafter to be made only in accordance with paragraph 
2 of this section. The chief of bureau may at any time withdraw 
ante-mortem inspection, in whole or in part, from any public stock- 
yards. 

Paragraph 4- If an animal marked as a suspect on inspection at 
public stockyards be not slaughtered by the establishment by which 
it was presented for inspection, then such animal shall be removed 
from the place of inspection only under the supervision of a bureau 
employee, and, until slaughtered in compliance with paragraph 3 of 
this section or disposed of pursuant to section 7 of this regulation, 
shall remain under the supervision of a bureau employee. Every 
animal marked as a suspect on inspection in the pens of an official 
establishment shall be slaughtered on the premises of that establish- 
ment unless disposed of pursuant to section 7 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 5. The withdrawal of ante-mortem inspection from pub- 
he stockyards, in whole or in part, shall not be a substitute for, but 
shall be in addition to, any penalty for violating these regulations 
elsewhere prescribed by these regulations or prescribed by the meat 
inspection act. 

Section 2. Paragraph 1. All animals plainly showing on ante- 
mortem inspection any disease or condition that under these regula- 
tions would cause condemnation of their carcasses on post-mortem 
inspection shall be marked "U. S. condemned" and disposed of in 
accordance with section 8 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 2. All hogs plainly showing on ante-mortem inspection 
that they are affected with either hog cholera or swine plague shall 
be marked "U. S. condemned" and disposed of in accordance with 
section 8 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 3. If a hog has a temperature of 106° F. or higher, and 
is of a lot in which there are symptoms of either hog cholera or swine 
plague, in case of doubt as to the cause of the high temperature, after 
being marked for identification, it may be held for a reasonable time, 
under the supervision of an inspector, for further observation and 
taking of temperature. Any hog so held shall be reinspected on the 
clay it is slaughtered. If upon such reinspection, or, when not held 
for further observation and taking of temperature, then on the original 
inspection, the hog has a temperature of 106° F. or higher, it shall 
be condemned and disposed of in accordance with section 8 of this 
regulation. 

Paragraph 4- All animals showing on ante-mortem inspection 
symptoms of rabies, tetanus, milk fever, or railroad sickness shall be 
marked "TJ. S. condemned" and disposed of in accordance with sec- 
tion 8 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 5. Immature animals offered for ante-mortem inspec- 
tion at any of the places specified in this regulation, and animals 



REG. 9. ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION. 21 

found dead or in a dying condition on premises of an official establish- 
ment, shall be marked "XL S. condemned'' and disposed of in accord- 
ance with section 8 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 6. All animals which, on ante-mortem inspection, do 
not plainly show, but are suspected of being affected with, any disease 
or condition that, under these regulations, may cause condemnation, 
in whole or in part, on post-mortem inspection, shall be so marked 
as to retain their identity- as suspects until final post-mortem inspec- 
tion, when the carcasses shall be marked and disposed of as provided 
elsewhere in these regulations, or until disposed of in accordance with 
section 7 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 7. All seriously crippled animals and animals commonly 
termed "downers," if not marked "U. S. condemned" under para- 
graph 1, 2, 3, or 4, shall be marked and treated as suspects in accord- 
ance wjth paragraph. 6, of this section. 

Paragraph 8. Animals which are known to have reacted to the 
tuberculin test and which are to be slaughtered at an official estab- 
lishment shall be marked and treated as suspects in accordance with 
paragraph 6 of this section. 

Section 3. All animals required by these regulations to be treated 
as suspects, or to be marked as suspects, or to be marked so as to 
retain their identity as suspects, shall be marked by or under the 
supervision of a bureau employee "U. S. suspect," or with such other 
distinctive mark or marks to indicate that they are suspects as the 
chief of bureau may adopt. No such mark shall be removed except 
by a bureau employee. 

Section 4. Paragraph 1. All hogs, even though not themselves 
marked as suspects, which are of lots one or more of which have been 
condemned or marked as suspects under section 2 of this regulation 
for either hog cholera or swine plague, shall, so far as possible, be 
slaughtered separately and apart from all other animals passed on 
ante-mortem inspection. 

Paragraph 2. All animals required to be marked as suspects shall 
be set apart and, except as hereinafter provided, shall be slaughtered 
separately from other animals at an official establishment. In order 
to avoid unnecessary suffering, crippled animals and animals com- 
monly termed "downers" should be slaughtered without delay. 

Section 5. In all cases of emergency slaughter, except as provided 
in section 23 of regulation 11, the animals shall be inspected imme- 
diately before slaughter, whether theretofore inspected or not. When 
the necessity for emergency slaughter exists the establishment shall 
notify the inspector in charge or his assistant so that such inspection 
may be made. 



22 BEG. 9. ANTE-MOBTEM INSPECTION. 

Section 6. Paragraph 1. When any condition is suspected in 
which the question of temperature is important, such as hog cholera, 
swine plague, Texas fever, anthrax, blackleg, pneumonia, or septi- 
cemia, and in the case of animals commonly termed "downers," the 
exact temperature shall be taken and recorded. 

Paragraph 2. If any animal has a temperature indicating a dis- 
eased condition, in case of doubt as to the cause of the high tempera- 
ture, after being marked for identification, it may be held for a rea- 
sonable time,, under the supervision of an inspector, for further 
observation and taking of temperature, before its final disposal is 
determined. 

Section 7. Paragraph 1. The slaughter of an animal which has 
been marked as a suspect on account of pregnancy or on account of 
having recently given birth to young, and which has not been exposed 
to any infectious or contagious disease, is not required. Such animal, 
together with its young, may be released for breeding or dairy pur- 
poses, and when. released shall be promptly removed from the stock- 
yards or premises of the establishment where inspected. At the time 
the animal is released, and immediately before removal, the suspect 
mark if detachable shall be detached by a bureau employee, who 
shall report his action to the inspector in charge. 

Paragraph 2. Vaccine animals with unhealed lesions of vaccinia, 
accompanied by fever, which have not been exposed to any other 
infectious or contagious disease, are not required to be slaughtered 
and may be disposed of in accordance with paragraph 1 of this section. 

Section 8. Animals marked "U. S. condemned" shall be killed by 
the establishment,, if not already dead, and shall not be taken into an 
establishment to be slaughtered or dressed, nor shall they be conveyed 
into any department of the establishment used for edible products, 
but they shall be disposed of and tanked in the manner provided for 
condemned carcasses in regulation 14. The "U. S. condemned" tag 
shall not be removed from, but shall remain on, the animal when it 
goes into the tank. The number of such tag shall be reported to the 
inspector in charge by the bureau employee who affixed it and also 
by the bureau employee who supervises the tanking of the animal. 

REGULATION 10. POST-MORTEM INSPECTION. 

Section 1. A careful post-mortem examination and inspection shall 
be made of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, 
and goats slaughtered at official establishments. Such inspection 
and examination shall be made at the time of slaughter, except in 
cases of emergencies provided for in section 23 of regulation 11. 

Section 2. The head, tongue, tail, thymus gland, and all viscera, 
and all parts and blood to be used in the preparation of meat food 



EEG. 10. POST-MOKTEM INSPECTION. 23 

products or medical products, shall be held in such manner as to 
preserve their identity until after post-mortem examination has been 
completed, in order that they may be identified hi case of condemna- 
tion of the carcass. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. Each carcass, including all parts and 
detached organs thereof, in which any lesion of disease or other 
condition is found that might render the meat or any organ unfit for 
food purposes, and which for that reason would require a subsequent 
inspection, shall be retained by the bureau employee at the time of 
inspection and taken to the place designated for final inspection. 
The identity of every such retained carcass, part, and detached organ 
thereof shall be maintained until the final inspection has been com- 
pleted. Retained carcasses shall not be either washed or trimmed 
unless authorized by the inspector. 

Paragraph 2. Such devices and methods as may be approved by 
the chief of bureau may be used for the temporary identification of 
retained carcasses, parts, or organs. In all cases the identification 
shall be further established by affixing "U. S. retained" tags as soon 
as practicable and before final inspection. These tags shall not be 
removed except by a bureau employee. 

Section 4. Each carcass or part which is found on final inspection 
to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for 
human food shall be conspicuously marked on the surface tissues 
thereof by a bureau employee at the time of inspection "U. S. 
inspected and condemned." Condemned detached organs and parts 
of such character that they can not be so marked shall be immediately 
placed in trucks or receptacles which shall be kept plainly marked 
"U. S. inspected and condemned" hi letters not less than 2 inches 
high. All condemned carcasses, parts, and organs shall remain in 
the custody of a bureau employee and shall be tanked as required in 
these regulations at or before the close of the day on which they are 
condemned, or be locked in the "U. S. condemned" room or com- 
partment. Condemned articles shall not be allowed to accumulate 
Unnecessarily in the condemned room or compartment. 

Section 5. Paragraph 1. Carcasses and parts passed for steriliza- 
tion shall be conspicuously marked on the surface tissues thereof by 
a bureau employee at the time of inspection "Passed for sterilization." 
All such carcasses and parts shall be sterilized in accordance with 
regulation 15 and until so sterilized shall remain in the custody of a 
bureau employee. 

Paragraph 2. In all cases where carcasses showing localized lesions 
of disease are passed for food or for sterilization the diseased parts 
shall be removed before the "U. S. retained" tag is taken from the 
carcass, and such parts shall be condemned. 



24 KEG. 10. POST-MORTEM INSPECTION. 

Section 6. Carcasses and parts found to be sound, healthful, whole- 
some, and fit for human food shall be passed and marked as provided 
in these regulations. 

Section 7. Hog carcasses found before evisceration to be affected 
with an infectious or contagious disease, including tuberculosis, shall 
not be eviscerated at the regular killing bed or bench, but shall be 
retained and separated from other carcasses and taken to the final 
inspection room or place and there opened and examined. This 
requirement, however, may be waived for those slaughter floors where 
the number of animals slaughtered per hour is small and on which 
the inspection facilities are such as permit a ready, efficient, and sani- 
tary performance of the final inspection without such separation. 

Section 8. Paragraph 1. When a carcass is to be dressed with the 
skin or hide left on, the skin or hide shall be thoroughly washed and 
cleaned before evisceration. 

Paragraph 2. All hair, scurf, and dirt shall be removed from hog 
carcasses, and the carcasses thoroughly washed and cleaned, before 
any incision is made for inspection or evisceration. 

Paragraph 3. Skins and hides from animals condemned for tuber- 
culosis or any disease communicable to man or other animal may be 
removed from the establishment, except as provided in section 2 of 
regulation 11, for tanning or other industrial use; but they shall be 
removed for these uses only after disinfection as follows: Each skin 
or hide shall be immersed for not less than five minutes in a 5 per cent 
solution of liquor cresolis compositus, or a 5 per cent solution of 
carbolic acid. The process of skinning and dipping shall be conducted 
entirely in the retaining room, or other specially prepared place 
approved by the inspector in charge, and under the supervision of a 
bureau employee. 

Section 9. The sternum of each carcass shall be split and spread 
apart at the time of slaughter so as to expose the lungs, heart, liver, 
and thoracic cavity, in order to allow proper inspection and drainage. 

Section 10. Carcasses or parts of carcasses shall not be inflated 
with air. Transferring the caul or other fat from fat to lean carcasses 
is prohibited. 

Section 1 1 . When only a portion of a carcass is to be condemned 
on account of slight bruises, either the bruised portion shall be 
removed immediately and tanked or the carcass shall be immediately 
placed in a retaining room and kept until chilled and the bruised 
portion then removed and tanked. 



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REGULATION 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES AND PARTS. 

Section 1. The carcasses or parts of carcasses of all animals 
slaughtered at an official establishment and found at the time of 
slaughter or at any subsequent inspection to be affected with any 
of the diseases or conditions named in other sections of this regula- 
tion shall be disposed of according to the section of this regulation 
pertaining to the disease or condition. Owing to the fact that it is 
impracticable to formulate rules covering every case and to designate 
at just what stage a process becomes loathsome or a disease noxious, 
the decision as to the disposal of all carcasses, parts, or organs not 
specifically covered by these regulations shall be left to the inspector 
in charge. 

Section 2. All parts, including hides, hoofs, horns, viscera, intes- 
tine,! contents, fat, and blood, of animals the carcasses of which show 
lesions of anthrax, regardless of the extent of the disease, shall be 
condemned and immediately incinerated or otherwise completely 
destroyed. The killing bed upon which the animal was slaughtered 
shall be disinfected with a 1 to 1,000 solution of bichlorid of mercury, 
and all knives, saws, cleavers, and other instruments which have 
come in contact with the carcass shall be treated as provided in 
paragraph 3 of section 7 of regulation 8 before being used upon another 
carcass. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. The following principles are declared for 
guidance in passing on carcasses affected with tuberculosis: 

Principle A. No meat should be used for food if it contains tubercle 
bacilli, or if there is a reasonable possibility that it may contain 
tubercle bacilli, or if it is impregnated with toxic substance of tuber- 
culosis or associated septic infections. 

Principle B. Meat should not be destroyed if the lesions are 
localized and not numerous, if there is no evidence of distribution of 
tubercle bacilli through the blood or by other means to the muscles 
or to parts that may be eaten with the muscles, and if the animal is 
well nourished and in good condition, since in this case there is no 
proof, or even reason to suspect, that the flesh is unwholesome. 

Principle C. Evidences of generalized tuberculosis are to be 
sought in such distribution and number of tuberculous lesions as can 
be explained only upon the supposition of the entrance of tubercle 
bacilli in considerable number into the systemic circulation. Sig- 
nificant of such generalization is the presence of numerous uniformly 
distributed tubercles throughout both lungs, also tubercles in the 
spleen, kidneys, bones, joints, and sexual glands, and in the lymph 
glands connected with these organs and parts, or in the splenic, renal, 
prescapular, popliteal, and inguinal glands, when several of these 
organs and parts are coincidentally affected. 



26 REG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 

Principle D. Localized tuberculosis is tuberculosis limited to a 
single or several parts or organs of the body without evidence of 
recent invasion of numerous bacilli into the systemic circulation. 

Paragraph 2. The meat of animals affected with tuberculosis 
shall be disposed of as follows: 

Bule A. The entire carcass shall be condemned if any of the following 
conditions occur: 

(a) When it was observed before the animal was killed that it was 
suffering with fever. 

(b) When there is a tuberculous or other cachexia, as shown by 
anemia and emaciation. 

(c) When the lesions of tuberculosis are generalized, as shown by 
their presence not only at the usual seats of primary infection but 
also in parts of the carcass or in the organs that may be reached by 
the bacilli of tuberculosis only when they are Carried in the systemic 
circulation. Tuberculous lesions in any two of the following men- 
tioned organs are to be accepted as evidence of generalization when 
they occur in addition to local tuberculous lesions in the digestive 
or respiratory tracts, including the lymph glands connected there- 
with: Spleen, kidney, uterus, udder, ovary, testicle, adrenal gland, 
and brain or spinal cord or their membranes. Numerous tubercles 
uniformly distributed throughout both lungs also afford evidence of 
generalization. 

id) When the lesions of tuberculosis are found in the muscles or 
intermuscular tissue or bones or joints, or in the body lymph glands 
as a result of draining the muscles, bones, or joints. 

(e) When the lesions are extensive in one or both body cavities. 

(f) When the lesions are multiple, acute, and actively progressive. 
(Evidence of active progress consists in signs of acute inflammation 
about the lesions, or liquefaction necrosis, or the presence of young 
tubercles.) 

Eule B. An organ or a part of a carcass shall be condemned under 
any of the following conditions : 

(a) When it contains lesions of tuberculosis. 

(&) When the lesion is localized but immediately adjacent to the 
flesh, as in the case of tuberculosis of the parietal pleura or peri- 
toneum. In this case not only the membrane or part affected but also 
the adjacent thoracic or abdominal wall is to be condemned. 

(c) When it has been contaminated by tuberculous material 
through contact with the floor or a soiled knife or otherwise. 

(d) Heads showing lesions of tuberculosis shall be condemned, 
except that when the heads of hogs are from carcasses passed for 
food or for sterilization and the lesions are slight, are calcified or 
encapsulated, and are confined to lymph glands in which not more 
than two glands are involved, the head may bo passed for steriliza- 
tion after the diseased tissues have been removed and condemned. 



EEG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 2t 

(e ) An organ shall be condemned when the corresponding lymph 
gland is tuberculous. 

Eule C. Carcasses showing lesions of tuberculosis should be passed 
for food when the lesions are slight, localized, and calcined or encap- 
sulated, or are limited to a single or several parts or organs of the 
body (except as noted in Rule A) , and there is no evidence of recent 
invasion of tubercle bacilli into the systemic circulation. Under this 
rule carcasses showing such lesions as the following may be passed, 
after the parts containing the lesions are removed and condemned in 
accordance with Rule B: 

(a) In the cervical lymph glands and two groups of visceral lymph 
glands in a single body cavity, such as the cervical, bronchial, and 
mediastinal glands, or the cervical, hepatic, and mesenteric glands. 

(b) In the cervical lymph glands and one group of visceral lymph 
glands and one organ in a single body cavity, such as the cervical and 
bronchial glands and the lungs, or the cervical and hepatic glands and 
the liver. 

(c) In two groups of visceral lymph glands and one organ in a 
single body cavity, such as the bronchial and mediastinal glands and 
the lungs, or the hepatic and mesenteric glands and the liver. 

id) In two groups of visceral lymph glands in the thoracic cavity 
and one group in the abdominal cavity, or in one group of visceral 
lymph glands in the thoracic cavity and two groups in the abdominal 
cavity, such as the bronchial, mediastinal, and hepatic glands, or the 
bronchial, hepatic, and mesenteric glands. 

(e) In the cervical lymph glands and one group of visceral lymph 
glands in each body cavity, such as the cervical, bronchial, and 
hepatic glands. 

(/) In the cervical lymph glands and one group of visceral lymph 
glands in each body cavity, together with the liver when the latter 
contains but few localized foci. In this class of carcasses, which will 
be chiefly those of hogs, the lesions of the liver are considered to be 
primary, as the disease is practically always of alimentary origin. 

Knle D. Carcasses which reveal lesions more severe or more 
numerous than those described for carcasses to be passed (Rule C), 
but not so severe nor so numerous as the lesions described for car- 
casses to be condemned (Rule A), may be rendered into lard or 
tallow or otherwise sterilized in accordance with regulation 15, if 
the distribution of the lesions is such that all parts containing tuber- 
culous lesions can be removed. 

Section 4. Paragraph 1. The carcasses of all hogs marked as sus- 
pects on ante-mortem inspection shall be given careful post-mortem 
inspection, and if it appears that they are affected with either acute 
hog cholera or swine plague, they shall be condemned. 



28 REG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 

Paragraph 2. Carcasses of hogs which show acute and characteristic 
lesions of either hog cholera or swine plague in any organ or tissue, 
other than the kidneys or lymph glands, shall be condemned. Inas- 
much as lesions resembling lesions of hog cholera or swine plague 
occur in the kidneys and lymph glands of hogs not affected with either 
hog cholera or swine plague, carcasses of hogs in the kidneys or lymph 
glands of which appear any lesions resembling lesions of either hog 
cholera or swine plague shall be carefully further inspected for cor- 
roborative lesions. On such further inspection — 

(a) If the carcass shows such lesions in the kidneys or in the lymph 
glands or in both, accompanied by characteristic lesions in some other 
organ or tissue, then all lesions shall be regarded as those of hog 
cholera or swine plague, and the carcass shall be condemned. 

(b) If the carcass shows in any organ or tissue, other than the 
kidneys or lymph glands, lesions of either hog cholera or swine plague, 
which are slight and limited in extent, it shall be passed for sterili- 
zation in accordance with regulation 15. 

• (c) If the carcass shows no indication of either hog cholera or 
swine plague in any organ or tissue other than the kidneys or lymph 
glands, it shall be passed for food, unless some other provision of these 
regulations requires a different disposal. 

Section 5. Paragraph 1. Carcasses of animals showing generalized 
actinomycosis shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 2. Carcasses of animals in a well-nourished condition 
showing uncomplicated localized actinomycotic lesions may be passed 
after the infected organs or parts have been removed and condemned, 
except as provided in paragraph 3 of this section. 

Paragraph 3. Heads affected with actinomycosis (lumpy jaw), 
including the tongue, shall be condemned, except that when the dis- 
ease of the jaw is slight, strictly localized, and without suppuration, 
fistulous tracts, or lymph-gland involvement, the tongue, if free from 
disease, may be passed. 

Section 6. Carcasses of animals affected with, or showing lesions 
of, any of the following named diseases or conditions shall be con- 
demned : 

(a) Blackleg. 

(6) Hemorrhagic septicemia. 

(c) Pyemia. 

(d) Septicemia. 

(e) Texas fever. 

(J) Malignant epizootic catarrh. 

(g) Unhealed vaccine lesions. 

(h) Parasitic ictero-hematuria in sheep. 



BEG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES; ETC. 29 

Section 7. Any individual organ or part of a carcass affected with 
carcinoma or sarcoma shall be condemned. In case the carcinoma or 
sarcoma involves any internal organ to a marked extent, or affects the 
muscles, skeleton, or body lymph glands, even primarily, the- carcass 
shall be condemned. In case of metastasis to any other organ or part 
of a carcass, or if metastasis has not occurred but there are present 
secondary changes in the muscles (serous infiltration, nabbiness, or 
the like), the carcass shall be condemned. 

Section 8. Carcasses of animals showing any disease such as gen- 
eralized melanosis, pseudo-leukemia, and the like, which affects the 
system of the animal, shall be condemned. 

Section 9. All slight, well limited abrasions on the tongue and 
inner surface of the lips and mouth, when without lymph-gland 
involvement, shall be carefully excised, leaving only sound, normal 
tissue, which may be passed. Any organ or part of a carcass which is 
badly bruised or which is affected by a tumor, an abscess, or a suppu- 
rating sore, shall be condemned; and when the lesions are of such 
character or extent as to affect the whole carcass, the whole carcass 
shall be condemned. Parts of carcasses which are contaminated by 
pus shall be condemned. 

Section 10. All carcasses of animals so infected that consumption 
of the meat or meat food products thereof may give rise to meat 
poisoning shall be condemned. This includes all carcasses showing 
signs of either — ; 

(a) Acute inflammation of the lungs, pleura, pericardium, perito- 
neum, or meninges. 

(b) Septicemia or pyemia, whether puerperal, traumatic, or without 
any evident cause. 

(c) Gangrenous or severe hemorrhagic enteritis or gastritis. 

(d) Acute diffuse metritis or mammitis. 

(e) Polyarthritis. 

(J) Phlebitis of the umbilical veins. 

(g) Traumatic pericarditis. 

(7i) Any acute inflammation, abscess, or suppurating sore, if asso- 
ciated with acute nephritis, fatty and degenerated liver, swollen 
soft spleen, marked. pulmonary hyperemia, general swelling of lymph 
glands, or diffuse redness of the skin, either singly or in combination. 

Immediately after the slaughter of any animal so diseased, the 
premises and implements used shall be thoroughly disinfected as 
prescribed elsewhere in these regulations. The part of any car- 
cass coming into contact with the carcass or any part of the car- 
cass of any animal covered by this section, other than those affected 
with the diseases mentioned in (a) above, or with the place where 
such diseased animal was slaughtered, or with the implements 



SO BEG, 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 

used in the slaughter thereof, before thorough disinfection of such 
place and implements has been accomplished, or with any other 
contaminated object, shall be condemned. In case the contaminated 
part is not removed from the carcass within two hours after such 
contact the whole carcass shall be condemned. 

Section 11. From the standpoint of meat inspection, necrobacillo- 
sis (lip-and-leg ulceration) may be regarded as a local affection at the 
beginning, and carcasses in which the lesions are so localized may 
be passed for food if in a good state of nutrition, after removing and 
condemning those portions affected with necrotic lesions. On the 
other hand, when emaciation, cloudy swelling of the glandular organs, 
or enlargement and discoloration of the lymph glands are associated 
with the affection, it is evident that the disease has progressed beyond 
the condition of localization to a state of toxemia, and the entire 
carcass should therefore be condemned as both innutritious and 
noxious. Septicemia or pyemia may intervene as a complication of 
the local necrosis, and when present the carcass shall be condemned 
in accordance with section 6 (c, d) of this regulation. 

Section 12. When extensive lesions of caseous lymphadenitis, with 
or without pleuritic adhesions, are found in the lungs, or if several of 
the visceral organs contain caseous nodules and the carcass is 
emaciated, the carcass shall be condemned. When the lesions of 
caseous lymphadenitis are limited to the superficial glands or to a few 
nodules in an organ, involving also the adjacent lymph glands, and 
the carcass is well nourished, the meat may be passed after the 
affected parts are removed and condemned. 

Section 13. Carcasses showing any degree of icterus with a paren- 
chymatous degeneration of organs, the result of infection or intoxica- 
tion, and tkose which show an intense yellow or greenish yellow dis- 
coloration without evidence of infection or intoxication, shall be con- 
demned. Carcasses affected with icterus, the result of conditions 
other than those before stated in this section, but which lose such 
discoloration on chilling, shall be passed for food, while those which 
do not so lose such discoloration may be passed for sterilization. 
No carcass affected with icterus may be passed for food or for steriliza- 
tion unless the final inspection thereof is completed under natural 
light. 

Section 14. Carcasses which give off the odor of urine or a sexual 
odor shall be condemned. When the final inspection of such car- 
casses is deferred until they have been chilled, the disposal shall be 
determined by the heating test. 

Section 15. Paragraph 1. Carcasses of animals affected with mange 
or scab in advanced stages, or showing emaciation or extension of the 



REG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CABCASSES, ETC. 31 

mflammation to the flesh, shall be condemned. When the disease 
is slight, the carcass may be passed. 

Paragraph 2. Carcasses of hogs affected with urticaria (diamond 
skin disease), Tinea tonsurans, Demodexfolliculorum, or erythema may 
be passed after detaching the affected skin, if the carcass is otherwise 
fit for food. 

Section 16. Paragraph 1. Carcasses of cattle (including the vis- 
cera) infested with tapeworm cysts known as Cysiicercus hovis shall 
be condemned if the infestation is excessive or if the meat is watery 
or discolored. Carcasses shall be considered excessively infested if 
incisions in various parts of the musculature expose on most of the 
cut surfaces two or more cysts within an area the size of the palm of 
the hand. 

Paragraph 2. Carcasses of cattle showing a slight infestation, that 
is, not to exceed ten cysts, as determined by a careful examination 
of the heart, muscles of mastication, tongue, diaphragm and its 
pillars, and of portions of the carcass rendered visible by the proc- 
ess of dressing, may be passed for food after removal and condem- 
nation of the cysts, with the surrounding tissues, provided the car- 
casses and parts, appropriately identified by retained tags, are held 
in cold storage or pickle for not less than twenty-one days under 
conditions which will insure proper preservation; and provided, 
further, that if the temperature at which, such carcasses and parts 
are held in cold storage does not exceed 15° F., the period of reten- 
tion may be reduced to six days. Carcasses which show no cysts 
except in the heart may be passed for food after retention in cold 
storage or pickle as above provided, irrespective of the number of 
cysts in the heart. 

Paragraph 3. Carcasses of cattle showing a moderate infestation, 
that is, a greater number of cysts than mentioned in paragraph 2, 
but which are not so extensively infested as indicated in paragraph 
1, of this section, may be passed for sterilization. In case such car- 
casses are not sterilized as required by regulation 15, they shall be 
condemned. 

Paragraph 4- Fats of carcasses passed for food or for sterilization 
under the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 may be passed for food 
provided they are melted at a temperature of not less than 140° F. 
The edible viscera, except the lungs and heart, of carcasses passed 
for food or for sterilization under the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 
3 may be passed for food without refrigeration or other process of 
sterilization provided they are found to be free from infestation upon 
final inspection. The intestines, weasands, and bladders from beef 
carcasses affected with Cysticercus hovis which haA'e been passed for 
food or for sterilization may be used for casings after they have been 



32 KEG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES, ETC. 

subjected to the usual methods of preparation and may be passed 
for such purpose upon completion of the final inspection. 

Paragraph 5. The inspection for Cysticercus bovis may be omitted 
in the case of calves under six weeks old. The routine inspection of 
calves over six weeks old for Cysticercus hovis may be limited to a 
careful examination of the surface of the heart and such surfaces of 
the body musculature as are rendered visible by the process of 
dressing. 

Section 17. Carcasses of hogs affected with tapeworm cysts (Cysti- 
cercus cellulosse) may be passed for sterilization, but if the infestation 
is excessive the carcass shall be condemned. 

Section 18. Paragraph 1. In the disposal of carcasses, edible organs, 
and parts of carcasses showing evidence of- infestation with parasites 
not transmissible to man, the following general rules shall govern: 
If the lesions are localized in such a manner and are of such a char- 
acter that the parasites and the lesions caused by them may be 
radically removed, the nonaffected portion of the carcass, organ, or 
part of the carcass may be passed for food after the removal and 
condemnation of the affected portions. If an organ or a part of a 
carcass shows numerous lesions caused by parasites, or if the char- 
acter of the infestation is such that complete extirpation of the 
parasites and lesions is difficult and uncertainly accomplished, or if 
the parasitic infestation or invasion renders the organ or part in any 
way unfit for food, the affected organ or part shall be condemned. 
If parasites . are found to be distributed in a carcass in such a man- 
ner or to be of such a character that their removal and the removal 
of the lesions caused by them are impracticable, no part of the 
carcass shall be passed for food. If the infestation is excessive the 
carcass shall be condemned. If the infestation is moderate the car- 
cass may be passed for sterilization, but in case such carcass is not 
sterilized as required by regulation 15 it shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 2. In the case of sheep carcasses affected with tape- 
worm cysts located in the muscles (Cysticercus ovis, so-called sheep 
measles, not transmissible to man) the carcass may be passed after 
the removal and condemnation of the affected portions; provided, 
however, that if upon the final inspection of sheep carcasses retained 
on account of measles the total number of cysts found embedded in 
muscle or in immediate relation with muscular tissue, including the 
heart, exceeds five, this shall be taken to indicate that the cysts are 
so generally distributed and so numerous that their removal would 
be impracticable, and the entire carcass shall be condemned or 
passed for sterilization, according to the degree of infestation. If 
not to exceed five cysts are found upon final inspection, the carcass 
may be passed after the removal and condemnation of the affected 
portions. 



EEG. 11. DISPOSAL OF DISEASED CARCASSES; ETC. 33 

Paragraph 3. Carcasses of animals found infested with gid bladder 
worms (Camurus cerebralis, Multiceps multiceps) may be passed after 
condemnation of the affected organ (brain or spinal cord) . 

Paragraph 4- Organs or parts of carcasses infested with hydatid 
cysts (Echinococcus) shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 5. Livers infested with flukes shall be condemned. 

Section 19. Carcasses of animals too emaciated or anemic to pro- 
duce wholesome meat, and carcasses which show a slimy degeneration 
of the fat or a serous infiltration of the muscles, shall be condemned. 

Section 20. Carcasses of animals in advanced stages of pregnancy 
(showing signs of parturition), also carcasses of animals which have 
within ten days given birth to young and in which there is no evidence 
of septic infection, may be passed for sterilization; otherwise, they 
shall be condemned. 

Section 21. Paragraph 1. Carcasses of calves, pigs, kids, and 
lambs too immature to produce wholesome meat shall be condemned. 
Such carcasses shall be considered too immature to produce wholesome 
meat if (a) the meat has the appearance of being water-soaked, is 
loose, flabby, tears easily, and can be perforated with the fingers; or 
(b) its color is grayish red; or (c) good muscular development as a 
whole is lacking, especially noticeable on the upper shank of the leg, 
where small amounts of serous infiltrates or small edematous patches 
are sometimes present between the muscles; or (d) the tissue which 
later develops as the fat capsule of the kidneys is edematous, dirty 
yellow or grayish red, tough, and intermixed with islands of fat. 

Paragraph 2. All unborn and stillborn animals shall be condemned. 

Paragraph 3. Meat and organs such as lungs and livers which have 
been condemned on account of parasitic infestation or invasion, and 
the flesh of immature and unborn animals and of animals which have 
been condemned on account of emaciation and recent parturition, 
may be utilized at official establishments in the manufacture of 
poultry feed, provided that such organs or tissues are sterilized by 
thorough cooking, steam rendering, or desiccation under high tem- 
perature. If so utilized, such organs and tissues shall be handled and 
prepared in rooms or places separate and apart from those in which 
edible products are handled, prepared, or stored. 

Section 22. Hogs which have entered the scalding vat alive or 
which have been suffocated in any way shall be condemned. 

Section 23. When it is necessary for humane reasons to slaughter 
an injured animal at night or on Sunday or a holiday when the 
inspector can not be obtained, the carcass and all parts shall be kept 
for inspection, with the head and all viscera except the stomach, 
bladder, and intestines held by the natural attachments. If all parts 
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34 REG. 12, 13. UNINSPECTED CARCASSES: TANK ROOMS, ETC. 

are not so kept for inspection, the carcass shall be condemned. If on 
inspection of a carcass slaughtered in the absence of an inspector any 
lesion or condition is found indicating that the animal was sick or 
diseased, the carcass shall be condemned. 

REGULATION 12. CARCASSES OF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED ¥/ITHOUT 
ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION. 

Section 1. No carcass of an animal slaughtered in the United 
States which has not had ante-mortem inspection by a bureau 
employee shall be brought into an official establishment, except that 
carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, slaughtered by a farmer 
on the farm, to which the head and all viscera other than the stomach, 
bladder, and intestines, are held by the natural attachments, may be 
received for inspection at official establishments where there is a 
veterinary inspector, upon the conditions prescribed in this section. 
After receipt in an official establishment, every such carcass shall be 
inspected, and if found to be free from disease and otherwise sound, 
healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, it shall be marked with 
the inspection legend. If found to be diseased, unsound, unhealthful, 
unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall be marked 
"U. S. inspected and condemned" and destroyed for food purposes 
as provided in regulation 14. 

REGULATION 13. TANK ROOMS AND TANKS. 

Section 1 . All tanks arid equipment used for rendering or prepar- 
ing inedible products shall be in rooms or compartments separate from 
those used for rendering or preparing edible products. There shall be 
no connection, by means of pipes or otherwise, between tanks, rooms, 
or compartments containing inedible products and those containing 
edible products. 

Section 2. Every official establishment shall file with the depart- 
ment blue prints or other accurate diagrams shewing all underground 
pipe lines and other equipment used to convey edible products and 
those used to convey inedible products, with a description giving the 
exact location, terminals, and dimensions of such pipqs and other 
equipment and of all gates, valves, or other controlling apparatus, and 
designating the lines used for conveying edible products and those used 
for conveying inedible products, and shall also file a copy thereof with 
the inspector in charge. Like prints or diagrams of alterations in exist- 
ing tank rooms or tanks and of new tank rooms or tanks of official estab- 
ishments shall be furnished to the department and approved by the 
chief of bureau before the same are constructed. If no such under- 
ground pipe line or equipment is used for any of the purposes men- 
tioned in this section, a written statement certifying to that fact and 



REGS. 13, 14. TANKING, ETC. ; DENATURING. 35 

duly signed by the proprietor or operator of the establishment shall 
be filed with the department. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1 . In conve}dng to the inedible-product tank 
carcasses of animals which have been condemned on ante-mortem 
inspection, they shall not be taken through rooms or compartments 
in which any meat or product is prepared, handled, or stored. 

Paragraph 2. Under no circumstances shall the carcass of any 
animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter be brought into 
any room or compartment in which any meat or product is prepared, 
handled, or stored. 

Paragraph 3. No dead animal shall, under any circumstances, be 
brought from outside the premises of an official establishment into 
any room or compartment thereof where any meat or product is 
prepared; nor, unless permission therefor m advance shall be obtained 
from the Secretary of Agriculture, shall any dead animal be brought 
into rooms or compartments where inedible, products are prepared. 
"Dead animal," within the meaning of this paragraph, shall be con- 
strued to include any animal which died without having been 
inspected under these regulations. 

Paragraph 4- Inedible fats from outside the premises of an official 
establishment shall not be received except into the tank room pro- 
vided for inedible products, and then only when their receipt into the 
tank room produces no insanitary condition on the premises. When 
so received, they shall not enter any room or compartment used for 
edible products. 

REGULATION 14. TANKING AND DENATURING CONDEMNED CARCASSES 

AND PRODUCTS. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. Condemned meat and products at offi- 
cial establishments having f acilities for tanking shall, except as herein- 
after provided, be disposed of by tanking as follows: The lower 
opening of the tank shall first be securely sealed by a bureau employee; 
then the condemned meat and products and a sufficient quantity of 
coloring matter or other substance to be designated by the depart- 
ment shall be placed in the tank in his presence, after which the 
upper opening shall also be securely sealed by such employee, who 
shall then see that a sufficient force of steam (not less than 40 pounds) 
is turned into the tank and maintained a sufficient time effectually 
to destroy the contents for food purposes. 

Paragraph 2. The seals of tanks shall be broken only by a bureau 
employee, after the product has been rendered as provided in para- 
graph 1 of this section. The drawing off of the contents of such tanks 
shall be supervised by a bureau employee. Samples shall be taken 
by bureau employees as often as required to determine whether the 
fat or grease is effectively denatured. 



36 KEGS. 15, 16. RENDERING, STERILIZING ; MARKING, BRANDING. 

Paragraph 3. Rendered fats and greases condemned on reinspee- 
tion shall be destroyed for food purposes by denaturing with coloring 
matter or other designated substance. 

Section 2. Any meat or product condemned at an official estab- 
lishment which has no facilities for tanking shall, under the super- 
vision of a bureau employee, be denatured with crude carbolic acid 
or other prescribed agent, or destroyed by incineration. When such 
meat or product is not incinerated, all containers thereof shall be 
opened, and all meat shall be freely slashed with a knife, before the 
denaturing agent is applied. 

REGULATION 15. RENDERING CARCASSES AND PARTS INTO LARD AND 
TALLOW, AND OTHER STERILIZATION. 

Section 1. Carcasses and parts passed for sterilization may be 
rendered into lard or tallow provided that such rendering is done 
in the following manner: The lower opening of the tank shall first 
be securely sealed by a bureau employee, then the carcasses or parts 
shall be placed in the tank in his presence, after which the upper 
opening shall be securely sealed by such employee, who shall then 
see that a sufficient force of steam is turned into the tank. Such car- 
casses and parts shall be cooked at a temperature not lower than 220° 
F. for a time sufficient to render them effectually into lard or tallow. 

Section 2. Establishments not equipped with steaming tanks for 
rendering carcasses and parts into lard or tallow as provided in 
section 1 of this regulation may render such carcasses or parts in 
open, kettles under the direct supervision of a bureau employee. 
Such rendering shall be done at a temperature and for a time suffi- 
cient to render the carcasses and parts effectually into lard or tallow, 
and shall be done only during regular hours of work. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. Carcasses and parts passed for steriliza- 
tion and which are not rendered into lard or tallow may be utilized 
for food purposes provided they are first sterilized by methods, and 
handled and marked in a manner, approved by the chief of bureau. 

Paragraph 2. Any carcasses or parts prepared in compliance with 
paragraph 1 of this section may be canned if the container be plainly 
and conspicuously marked so as to show that the product is second 
grade, class, or quality and has been sterilized. 

REGULATION 16. MARKING, BRANDING, AND IDENTIFYING MEAT AND 

PRODUCTS. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. The chief of bureau may approve and 
authorize the use of abbreviations of marks of inspection under these 
regulations. Such abbreviations shall have the same force and effect 
as the respective marks for which they are so authorized to be used. 



REG. 16. MARKING AND BRANDING. 37 

Paragraph, 2. Except for the purpose of submitting a sample or 
samples of the same to the chief of bureau for approval, no person 
shall make or prepare, or cause to be made or prepared, the inspection 
legend, or any abbreviation, copy, or representation thereof, without 
the written authority therefor of the chief of bureau given in advance. 

Paragraph 3. No person shall affix or place, or cause to be affixed or 
placed, the inspection legend, or any abbreviation, copy, or represen- 
tation thereof, to or on any meat or product, except under the super- 
vision of a bureau employee. 

Paragraph 4- No person shall fill or cause to be filled, in whole or 
in part, with any meat or product, any container bearing, or, within 
the United States, any container intended to bear, the inspection 
legend, or any abbreviation, copy, or representation thereof, except 
under the supervision of a bureau employee. 

Paragraph 5. No person shall affix or place, or cause to be affixed 
or placed, the inspection legend, or any abbreviation, copy, or repre- 
sentation thereof, to or on any container of any meat or product, 
except under the supervision of a bureau employee. 

Paragraph 6. No person shall make, prepare, affix, or use, or cause 
to be made, prepared, affixed, or used, the inspection legend, or any 
abbreviation, copy, or representation thereof, except in compliance 
with these regulations. 

Paragraph 7. Advertisements, photographs, and other representa- 
tions of any meat or product prepared exclusively in official estab- 
lishments, which contain copies or reproductions of the inspection 
legend and which are not false or misleading, may be permitted when 
approved in advance by the chief of bureau. 

Paragraph 8. All marks of inspection shall be carefully applied and 
securely affixed. 

Paragraph 9. No person shall remove or cause to be removed from 
an official establishment any article which these regulations require 
to be marked in any way unless the same is clearly and legibly 
marked in compliance with these regulations. 

Section 2. Paragraph 1 . Each carcass which has been inspected 
and passed in an official establishment shall be marked at the time of 
inspection with the inspection legend and with the number of the 
establishment. Each primal part shall be likewise marked before it 
leaves the establishment in which it is first inspected and passed, 
except as provided in paragraphs 2 and 6 of this section and section 6 
of regulation 25. 

Paragraph 2. Primal parts which have been inspected and passed 
but do not bear the inspection legend may be transported from 
one official establishment to another official establishment, for fur- 
ther processing, in a car, wagon, or other closed container, if the car, 



38 REG. 16. MASKING AND BRANDING. 

wagon, or container be sealed with a department seal bearing the 
inspection legend in compliance with these regulations. 

Paragraph 3. All primal parts which have been inspected and 
passed shall, after processing, bear, plainly and legibly, the inspection 
legend and the number of the official establishment at which the 
processing was completed. 

Paragraph 4- Inspected and passed sausages and other meat food 
products in animal casings, of the ordinary "ring" variety or larger, 
shall bear on the casings the inspection legend and the number of the 
establishment. Inspected and passed smoked sausages and other 
meat food products in animal casings, of the smaller varieties, such 
as Frankfort and Vienna styles, shall bear on the casings one or more 
niarks to each chain or two or more marks to each bunch. When 
additional markings are required by these regulations, they shall be 
likewise applied. 

Paragraph 5. Meat food products in animal casings, other than 
sausage, shall be branded with the name of the product, the statement 
"composed of," and the names of the ingredients arranged in the 
order of their percentages. 

Paragraph 6. Any meat or product of such character or so small that 
it can not be marked with a brand, and which has been inspected and 
passed, but does not bear the inspection legend, may be transported 
in a closed container bearing the inspection legend and other marks 
required by these regulations. When such container has been opened, 
the contents thereof may not be further transported in interstate or 
foreign commerce unless reinspected and packed in a container or 
containers bearing the inspection legend and other marks required by 
these regulations. The chief of bureau may authorize meat and 
products of such character or so small that they can not be marked 
with a brand, which have been inspected and passed, but do not bear 
the inspection legend, to be removed from an official establishment 
in open containers when such articles have been sold by the estab- 
lishment exclusively for consumption in the city or town at or in 
which the establishment is located. The chief of bureau may with- 
draw such privilege of removal in open containers if the same be in 
any way abused or if the establishment make any sale of any meat or 
product which is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise 
unfit for human food. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. When cereal not in excess of 2 per cent is 
added to sausage, the product shall be marked with the phrase 
"cereal added." When water in excess of 3 per cent and cereal are 
added to certain kinds of sausage, as provided in paragraphs 4 and 5 
of section 6 of regulation 18, the product shall be marked "sausage, 
water, and cereal." When water, but no cereal, is added to certain 



EEG. 16. MARKING AND BBANDING. 39 

kinds of sausage, as provided in paragraph 5 of section 6 of regulation 
18, the addition of water need not be stated. 

Paragraph 2. When coloring matter is used in the preparation of 
casings, as provided in paragraph 3 of section 6 of regulation 18, the 
product shall be marked with the phrase "artificially colored." 

Section" 4. Official establishments shall furnish such ink brands, 
burning brands, and like devices for marking meat and products as the 
chief of bureau may require. In advance of manufacture, complete 
and accurate descriptions and designs of the same shall be submitted 
to and approved by the chief of bureau. Every such brand and 
device which bears the inspection legend shall, immediately upon 
being manufactured, be delivered into the custody of the inspector 
in charge of the establishment, and shall be used only under the 
supervision of a bureau employee. When not in use for marking 
inspected and passed meat and products, all such brands and devices 
bearing the inspection legend shall be kept locked in properly equipped 
lockers or compartments, the keys of which shall not leave the posses- 
sion of a bureau employee. 

Section 5. All brands and devices furnished by the bureau for 
marking articles with the inspection legend, including self-locking 
seals and presses for lead and wire seals, shall be used only under the 
supervision of a bureau employee, and, when not in use for marking, 
shall be kept locked in properly equipped lockers or compartments, 
the keys of which shall not leave the possession of a bureau employee. 

Section 6. No brand or device shall be false or misleading. The 
letters and figures thereon shall be of such style and type as will make 
a clear impression. The inspection legend and establishment num- 
ber on brands shall be separate and apart from trade names, marks, or 
other devices. 

Section 7. "Paragraph 1. Except as provided in paragraphs 2 and 3 
of this section and in section 6 of regulation 25, when any inspected 
and passed meat or product for domestic commerce is moved from 
an official establishment, or from a place having market inspection 
under these regulations, the shipping container shall bear a domes- 
tic meat label which has been submitted to and received the ap- 
proval of the department and conforms to the following specifica- 
tions: The label shall be printed with black ink on white paper of 
good quality, and shall be not less than 2f by 4 inches in size. The 
phrase "domestic meat label" shall be printed inside the border across 
one end of the label. The word "establishment" and the official 
number shall constitute the top line of the label and shall be printed 
in type of such size and style as to make them the most conspicuous 
part of the label. The following statement shall be printed in uniform 
style: "The meat or meat food product contained herein has been 



40 



REG. 16. MARKING AND BRANDING. 



inspected and passed under the provisions of the act of Congress of 
June 30, 1906." 1 The name and address of the establishment, or the 
name only, may also be printed on the label, at the bottom thereof, in 
type of such size and style as to be less conspicuous than the estab- 
lishment number. No word or statement, 1 except as permitted by 
this paragraph, and no picture or other advertising matter, device, or 
design, shall appear upon the domestic meat label, which in form and 
substance shall be as follows: 













1 

LU 


ESTABLISHMENT 999 






1 










\— 


THE MEAT OR MEAT FOOD PRODUCT 






1 L 1 


CONTAINED HEREIN HAS BEEN IN- 








SPECTED AND PASSED UNDER THE 
PROVISIONS OF THE ACT OF CON- 






o 


GRESS OF JUNE 30, 1906. 






CO 






SMITH, JONES & RANKIN, 




o 


NEW YORK, N. Y. 













Paragraph 2. When any meat or product prepared in an official 
establishment for domestic commerce has been inspected and passed 
and is inclosed in a cloth wrapping as a shipping container, such 
wrapping shall bear the inspection legend and establishment number 
applied by an ink brand, except in those cases in which the inspection 
legend and establishment number on the articles themselves are 
clearly legible through the wrapping. 

Paragraph 3. The use of domestic meat labels is not required on 
containers bearing trade labels which have been approved by the 
department and on which the inspection legend and establishment 
number appear in plain view after the package is prepared for 
shipment. 

Paragraph 4- Domestic meat labels shall be affixed to packages in 
the manner prescribed in paragraph 2 of section 1 of regulation 24 
for affixing meat inspection stamps to export packages. 

Section 8. The shipping or outside containers of meat and products 
for export shall be marked in compliance with sections 1 and (3 of 
regulation 24. 

1 For further information regarding the wording of the inspection legend, see sections 2 and 3 of regu- 
lation 1. 



EEGS. 16, 17. MASKING AND BRANDING; LABELING. 41 

Section 9. Both ends of each container, such as tierces and. tank 
cars, of inedible grease, inedible tallow, or other inedible rendered 
fat, shall be painted white and conspicuously stenciled or burned 
with the name of the product and the word ' 'inedible" in letters not 
less than two inches high, or, in the case of tank cars, not less than 
four inches high. 

Section 10. Paragraph 1. Tank cars carrying inspected and passed 
product between official establishments shall be equipped for sealing 
and be securely sealed with seals bearing the inspection legend fur- 
nished by the department and affixed by bureau employees. 

Paragraph 2. Each tank car carrying inspected and passed product 
from an official establishment to any destination other than an official 
establishment shall have securely affixed thereto a label showing the 
true name of the product, the inspection legend, the number of the 
official establishment, and the date of loading. Before the car is 
removed from the place where it is unloaded, the carrier shall remove 
or obliterate such label. 

Paragraph 3. When inspected and passed products for export are 
transferred from tank cars to other containers on boats, such trans- 
fer shall be under bureau supervision, and the containers on the 
boats shall be likewise labeled. 

REGULATION 17. LABELING. 

Section 1 . Paragraph 1 . When any inspected and passed meat or 
product is placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other 
receptacle or covering in an official establishment, there shall be 
attached to such container or covering a trade label as hereinafter 
described. 

Paragraph 2. No container or covering which bears or is to bear 
a trade label shall be filled, in whole or in part, except with articles 
which have been inspected and passed in compliance with these reg- 
ulations and which are sound, healthful, wholesome, fit for human 
food, and strictly in accordance with the statements on the label. 
No such container or covering shall be filled, in whole or in part, 
and no trade label shall be affixed, except under the supervision of a 
bureau employee. 

Section 2. Paragraph 1. Trade labels shall bear the true name of 
the meat or product contained in the package, and, except as pro- 
vided in paragraphs 2 and 5 of this section, shall bear, in prominent 
letters and figures of uniform size, the phrase "U. S. inspected and 
passed under the act of Congress of June 30, 1906/' 1 and the number 
of the official establishment at which the meat or product was j)re- 
pared, or, if processed, the number of the establishment at which 

1 For further information regarding the wording of the inspection legend, see sections 2 and 3 of regu- 
lation 1. 



42 BEG. 1*7. LABELING. 

last processed. Such, labels may also bear any other statement, not 
false or misleading, which has been approved by the department. 

Paragraph 2. Trade labels within the meaning of these regulations 
shall include printed, lithographed, or embossed labels, stickers, seals, 
wrappers, and receptacles. Metal containers on which the inspec- 
tion legend is embossed may, with the approval of the department, 
bear the inspection legend in abbreviated form. 

Paragraphs. Stencils, box dies, inserts, tags, so-called "liners" 
and "circles" and like devices shall not bear the inspection legend or 
any abbreviation or representation thereof, nor shall any of them be 
used in an official establishment unless previously approved by the 
department. 

Paragraph /+. All sealed tin containers of inspected and passed 
meat and products filled in an official establishment shall have 
embossed thereon the number of that establishment. When so 
marked, the establishment number may be omitted from the trade 
label or wrapper. Trade labels shall not be affixed to containers so 
as to obscure the embossed establishment number. 

Paragraph 5. When any meat or product is placed in cartons, or 
in wrappers of paper or cloth, or in such other containers as the 
department may approve, the inspection legend and the establish- 
ment number may be embodied in a sticker or seal prominently dis- 
played with the trade label, but not necessarily a part thereof. Such 
stickers or seals shall not be used without the approval of the depart- 
ment, and shall be securely affixed to the containers under the super- 
vision of a bureau employee after an approved trade label has been 
affixed. 

Paragraph 6. No detachable device bearing the inspection legend 
or any abbreviation or representation thereof shall be affixed to any 
meat or product or the container thereof. 

' Section 3. Paragraph 1. No trade label shall be used until it has 
been approved in its final form by the department. Duplicates of 
new trade labels in the form of sketches, proofs, or photographic 
copies shall be submitted through the inspector in charge to the de- 
partment for approval. After trade labels from approved sketches or 
proofs are printed, lithographed, or embossed, they shall be submitted 
in quadruplicate through the inspector in charge for final approval 
and filing. 

Paragraph 2. All trade labels, whether in the form of sketches, 
proofs, or finished labels, which are submitted to the department for 
final approval, shall, when the chief of bureau shall so require, be 
accompanied by a statement showing the kinds and percentages of 
the ingredients of the product on any container of which it is desired 
to use the label. Approximate percentages may be given in cases 



EEG. 17, LABELING. 43 

where the percentages of ingredients may vary from time to time, if 
the limits of variations are stated. 

Section 4. Trade labels shall be used only on products for which 
they are approved. They shall not be applied to any meat or product 
the container of which bears any statement that is false or misleading. 

Section 5. Trade labels to be affixed to packages of any meat or 
product for foreign commerce may be printed in a foreign language. 
The inspection legend and the official establishment number sliail in 
all cases appear thereon in English; but, in addition, may appear, 
literally translated, in foreign languages. 

Section 6. The name of anyone to whom inspection is granted may 
appear, without qualification, upon the label or the container of an 
article prepared for him by the official establishment at which he was 
granted inspection. When an article is prepared by an official estab- 
lislynent for a person other than one of those to whom inspection has 
been granted at that establishment, and the name of such person is to 
appear upon the label or container thereof, a statement shall be 
made on the label to the effect that the article was prepared for such 
person, or the term "distributer" or "distributers" or "distributed 
by," or other equivalent term, shall be used thereon in connection 
with the name of such person, or the name of such person shall be used 
thereon followed by the word "brand " or ' 'style " in the same size and 
style of lettering as the name of such person. Whenever the name of 
such person appears on the label, it shall be prominently placed and 
lettered and shall not be used so as to be either false or misleading. 

Section 7. Paragraph 1. No meat or product, and no container 
thereof, shall be labeled with any false or deceptive name ; but estab- 
lished trade names which are usual to such articles and are not false 
or deceptive and which have been approved by the Secretary of 
Agriculture may be used. 

Paragraph 2. No statement, word, picture, design, or device which 
conveys any false impression or gives any false indication of origin or 
quality shall appear on any label. For example: 

(a) The picture of any swine shall be allowed only on labels used 
in connection with pork products. 

(jb) Such terms as "special," "fancy," "selected," "best," "finest," 
"absolutely pure," "100 per cent pure," and the like, without qualifi- 
cation, shall be allowed on labels only in connection with products 
the quality of which justifies the use of such terms. 

(c) Names of countries, States, and Territories, and such other 
geographical names as the department may approve, may be used 
on labels only when followed by the word "style," "type," "cut," 
or "brand," in the same size and style of lettering as the geograph- 
ical name, unless the products for which the labels are intended 



44 REG. 17. LABELING. 

are prepared in the localities named; provided that when a geo- 
graphical name by reason of long usage is recognized as a generic 
term, indicating a certain style, type, or brand, such name may be 
used without the words " style," "type," or "brand," when accom- 
panied by a statement showing the State or Territory in which the 
product is prepared, if prepared in a State or Territory, and show- 
ing the locality in which the product is prepared, if not prepared in a 
State, or Territory. For example, sausage of the kind commonly 
known as Vienna sausage may be labeled either "Vienna style 
sausage" or "Vienna sausage, made in Illinois." In the latter case 
the words showing the place of manufacture need not be in the same 
size and style of lettering as the name of the product, but shall be 
plain and conspicuous. 

(d) Names indicative or imitative of distinctive types or breeds of 
live stock shall not be used on labels unless the products for which 
such labels are intended are actually derived from carcasses of ani- 
mals of the type or breed specified. 

(e) The word "ham, " without any prefix indicating the species of 
animal from which derived, shall be used on labels only in connection 
with pork hams. 

(/) The word "fresh" shall not be used on labels in connection 
with any meat or product the ingredients of which, in whole or in 
part, have undergone any process of curing. 

(g) Such terms as "meat extract" or "extract of beef," without 
qualification, shall not be permitted on labels in connection with 
products prepared from organs or parts of the carcass other than 
fresh flesh. Extracts prepared entirely from parts of the carcass 
other than fresh flesh shall not be labeled "meat extract," but may 
be properly labeled with the true names of the parts from which pre- 
pared, as, for example, "liver extract." The terms "beef extract" 
and "extract of beef" without qualification shall be applied only to 
extracts of fresh beef. Extract of cured beef or of other cured meat 
shall be designated respectively as "extract of cured beef," "extract 
of cured meat" or "cured-meat extract." In the latter case the 
words "cured" and "meat" shall appear on one line in the same size 
and style of lettering and shall be connected by a hyphen. When 
beef extract or meat extract is mixed with extract from cured meat 
or extract derived from the other parts of the carcass, such mixture 
shall be designated as "compound meat extract," and, in addition, 
there shall appear on the label a statement showing the ingredients, 
other than fresh flesh, which have been used in preparing the extract. 
In the case of fluid extract the word "fluid " shall also appear on the 
label, as, for example, "fluid extract of beef." The word "fluid" 
merely indicates a lower percentage of solid matter. 

Qi) Such terms as "country," "farm," and the like, shall not be 
used on labels in connection with meat and products unless such meat 



BEG. 17. LABELING. 45 

and products are actually prepared in the country or on the farm. 
However, if the articles are prepared in the same way as in the coun- 
try or on the farm, these terms, if qualified by the word "style" in 
the same size and style of lettering, may be used. Sausage contain- 
ing cereal shall not be labeled "country style," and lard not rendered 
in an open kettle shall not be designated as "country style." 

(i) The word "leaf" shall not be used in connection with lard pre- 
pared from fat other than leaf fat. 

Section 8. A meat food product when composed of more than 
one ingredient . shall not bear a label with a name stating or in- 
dicating that the product is a substance which is not the principal 
ingredient contained therein, even though such name be an estab- 
lished trade name. The term "principal ingredient," as used in this 
section, shall be construed to mean that such ingredient is equal to 
or exceeds in amount the other ingredients combined, exclusive of 
cereal and water. If the ingredients are stated on the label, they 
shall appear in the order of their percentages. For example, sausage 
containing pork and beef shall not be labeled "pork sausage," but 
shall be labeled "pork and beef sausage." However, if the pork in- 
gredient equals or exceeds 50 per cent of the meat content, the sau- 
sage may be labeled "pork sausage, beef added." A product con- 
sisting of veal, pork, and beef shall not be labeled "veal loaf," but 
may be designated as "veal, pork, and beef loaf." However, if the 
veal ingredient is not less than 50 per cent of the meat content of the 
product, the product may be labeled "veal loaf, pork and beef added," 
the words "pork" and "beef" to appear in the order of their percent- 
ages, as above indicated. 

Section 9. Paragraph 1. When a meat food product contains an 
added substance or substances, the label shall show the added sub- 
stance or substances except as provided in the succeeding paragraphs 
of this section. 

Paragraph 2- When cereal is added to sausage within the limit 
prescribed by paragraph 4 of section 6 of regulation 18, there shall 
appear on the label in a prominent manner, contiguous to the name 
of the product, the statement "cereal added." When water in 
excess of 3 per cent and cereal are added to certain kinds of sausage 
as permitted by paragraph 5 of section 6 of regulation 18, the same 
shall be labeled "sausage, water, and cereal;" but when no cereal is 
added, the addition of water need not be stated. 

Paragraph 3. When cereal is added to any meat food product other 
than sausage in quantities not exceeding 5 per cent, the statement 
"cereal added" shall appear on the label in a conspicuous manner 
contiguous to the name of the product, and if any such product con- 
tains cereal in quantities exceeding 5 per cent, then "cereal" shall 



46 REG. 17. LABELING. 

appear as a part of the name of the product in uniform size and 
style of letters, for example, "potted meat and cereal:" Provided, 
however, That, products such as meat loaves, pates, soups, tripe 
with onion sauce, Irish stew, stewed kidneys, hash, chile con carne, 
tamales, boiled dinners, chop suey, scrapple, and the like, may contain 
cereal and similar substances without the presence of such substances 
being indicated on the labels. 

Paragraph Jj.. When edible parts of the head or viscera, or other 
similar edible parts, are added to any meat or product bearing a spe- 
cific name, such as "meat," "beef," "pork," "veal," and the like, 
there shall appear on the label, in a prominent manner and contigu- 
ous to the name of the product, the statement "meat products 
added, " provided such parts are not in excess of 20 per cent. If this 
percentage is exceeded, the words "and meat products" must appear 
as a part of the name of the product and in the same size and style 
of lettering. The percentage of such parts added to any meat or 
product shall be based on the weight of the meat ingredient of 
the product exclusive of ' added substances. When a potted, 
deviled, or similar article of food is prepared exclusively from the 
above mentioned parts, the product shall be labeled "potted meat 
products," "deviled meat products," and the like. 

Paragraph 5. Lard may have added thereto not to exceed 10 per 
cent of lard stearin without the presence of added stearin being shown 
on the label. When more than 10 per cent of lard stearin is added to 
lard, there shall appear on the label, contiguous to and in the same 
size and style of lettering as the name of the product, the statement 
"lard stearin added." 

Paragraph 6. When not over 20 per cent of oleo stearin, beef fat, or 
mutton fat are added to lard, there shall appear on the label, con- 
tiguous to and in the same size and style of lettering as the name of 
the product, the statement "oleo stearin added," "beef fat added," 
or "mutton fat added," respectively, as the case may be. 

Paragraph 7. Mixtures, of which the lard ingredient equals or 
exceeds in amount the other ingredients combined, may be labeled 
"lard compound," provided all the ingredients in the mixture are 
stated on the label in a prominent manner in the order of their per- 
centages and preceded by the statement "composed of," or "made 
from," or an equivalent statement. 

Paragraph 8. Labels for mixtures, other than oleomargarin, con- 
sisting of fat derived from carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats 
and any vegetable oil, shall bear the names of the ingredients in a 
prominent manner, in the order of their percentages, preceded by 
the statement "composed of," or "made from," or an equivalent 
statement. Tierces and barrels containing "compound," or "lard 



EEG. 17. LABELING. 47 

substitutes, " or "lard compound," shall, immediately after filling, 
be legibly marked on one end, and on the side near the end, with the 
true name of the product. Tin pails, drums, tubs, and similar con- 
tainers of such products shall bear the true name of the product also 
on the side at the the time of filling. 

Paragraph 9. Any meat or product containing any benzoate of soda 
shall be plainly labeled so as to show the presence and the percentage 
amount of such benzoate of soda. 

Paragra'ph 10. When permitted coloring matter is used in the 
preparation of lard or other prepared animal fats under the provisions 
of paragraph 3 of section 6 of regulation 18, there shall appear on the 
label, in a prominent manner and contiguous to the name of the 
product, the statement "artificially colored." 

Section 10. Paragraph 1. When the weight of any meat or product, 
prepared at an official establishment, or imported, prior to September 
3, 1914, appears upon a label or container, it shall be the correct 
weight, and the words "net," "gross," "not less than," or a similar 
statement shall appear in direct connection therewith. 

Paragraph 2. All meat and products in package form, prepared at 
official establishments, or imported, on or after September 3, 1914, 
shall have the quantity of the contents thereof plainly and con- 
spicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, 
measure, or numerical count: Provided, That such reasonable varia- 
tions and tolerances and also exemptions as to small packages shall be 
permitted as shall be established by rules and regulations made 
pursuant to the food and drugs act. 

Section 11. Paragraph 1. No marks of Federal inspection which 
have been previously used shall be again used for the identification of 
any meat or product except as provided in paragraph 2 of this 
section. 

Paragraph 2. All stencils, marks, labels, or other devices, whether 
relating to any meat or product or otherwise, on previously used 
containers, shall be removed or obliterated before such containers are 
used for any meat or product, unless such stencils, marks, labels, or 
devices correctly indicate the article to be packed therein and such 
containers are refilled under the supervision of bureau employees. 

Section 12. Paragraph 1. All labeling of meat and products re- 
quired to be inspected by bureau employees shall be in compliance 
with these regulations. 

Paragraph 2. No person shall apply or affix, or cause to be applied 
or affixed, any label to any article prepared or received in an official 
establishment or to any container thereof except in compliance with 
these regulations. 



48 REG. 18. PREPARATION OF MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

Paragraph 3. No person shafl ; in an official establishment, fill, or 
cause to be filled, in whole or in part, any container with any article 
required by these regulations to bear a label, except in compliance 
with these regulations. 

Paragraph 4- No person shall remove or cause to be removed 
from an official establishment any meat or product bearing a label 
unless such label be in compliance with these regulations. 

REGULATION 18. REINSPECTION AND PREPARATION OF MEAT AND 

PRODUCTS. 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. All meat and products, whether fresh 
or cured, even though previously inspected and passed, shall be rein- 
spected by bureau employees as often as may be necessary, in order 
to ascertain whether the same are sound, healthful, wholesome, and 
fit for human food at the time the same leave official establishments. 
If upon such reinspection any article is found to have become un- 
sound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food, 
the original mark, stamp, or label thereon shall be removed or defaced 
and the article condemned. 

Paragraph 2. Due care shall be taken to prevent meat and products 
from falling on the floor or becoming in any way contaminated. 
In event of their so falling or becoming contaminated, all, or such 
portion thereof as can not be cleaned and rendered wholesome and fit 
for food, shall be condemned. 

Section 2. Upon all meat and products which are suspected on 
reinspection of being unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any 
way unfit for human food, or upon the containers thereof, there shall 
be placed by a bureau employee, at the time of reinspection, a "U. S. 
retained" tag. The employee who affixes the tag shall record the 
tag number and the kind and amount of the article retained. Such 
tag shall accompany such article to the retaining room or other 
special place for final inspection. When the final inspection is made, 
if the article is condemned, the original mark, stamp, or label thereon 
shall be removed or defaced and the inspector shall stamp on or write 
across the face of the retained tag the phrase U U. S. inspected and 
condemned," and this tag shall accompany such article into the tank. 
The inspector shall make a complete record of the transaction and 
shall report his action to the inspector in charge. If, however, upon 
final inspection the article is passed for food, the inspector shall remove 
the retained tag, record the transaction, and report his action to the 
inspector in charge. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. Except as provided in regulation 12, no 
meat or product shall be brought into an official establishment unless 
it has been previously inspected and passed by a bureau employee, nor 



REG. 18. PREPARATION OF MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 49 

unless it can be identified by marks, seals, brands, or labels as having 
been so inspected and passed, nor, except as provided in paragraph 2 
of section 12 of regulation 27, if it has been processed elsewhere than 
in an official establishment. All meat and products brought into 
an official establishment in compliance with these regulations shall 
be identified and reinspected at the time of receipt, and be subject 
to further reinspection in such manner and at such times as may be 
deemed necessary. If upon such reinspection any article is found to 
be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human 
food, the original mark, stamp, or label shall be removed or defaced 
and the article condemned. 

Paragraph 2. Except persons having unrevoked certificates of 
exemption and farmers slaughtering animals on the farm, who comply 
with the provisions of regulation 25 applicable to them, no person who 
slaughters cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, or processes any meat or 
product, in an establishment not having inspection in compliance with, 
these regulations, shall transport or offer for transportation or cause 
or permit to be transported or offered for transportation any meat or 
product from such unofficial establishment in interstate or foreign 
commerce, or bring the same into an official establishment: Provided, 
however, That fresh meats and unmelted fresh fats which have been 
inspected and passed and which bear the inspection legend may be 
brought from any such unofficial establishment into official establish- 
ments in the same State, Territory, or District when such meats or 
fats are found upon reinspection to be sound, healthful, wholesome, 
and fit for human food. 

Paragraph 3. Except as prohibited by paragraph 2 of this section, 
cod, kidney, and breast fat from inspected and passed beef carcasses 
may be brought from unofficial establishments, markets, or shops 
which handle no beef carcasses except those which have been inspected 
and passed, into official establishments, provided such fats have been 
handled at all times in a sanitary manner and are found on reinspec- 
tion, when received, to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for 
human food. 

Section 4. Every official establishment shall designate, with the 
approval of the inspector in charge, a dock or place at which returned 
meat and products shall be received, and such meat and products 
shall be received only at such docks or places and shall be there 
inspected by a bureau employee before entering the establishment. 

Section 5. Paragraph 1. All processes used in curing, pickling, 
rendering, canning, or otherwise preparing any meat or product in 
official establishments shall be supervised by bureau employees. No 
fixtures or appliances, such as tables, trucks, trays, tanks, vats, 
machines, implements, cans, or containers of any kind, shall be used 
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50 KEG. IS. PREPARATION OF MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 

unless they are of such materials and construction as will not con- 
taminate the meat and products and are clean and sanitary. All 
steps in the processes of manufacture shall be conducted carefully 
and with strict cleanliness in rooms or compartments separate from 
those used for inedible products. 

Paragraph 2. All substances and ingredients used in the manufac- 
ture or preparation of any meat or product shall be clean, sound ; 
healthful, wholesome, and otherwise fit for human food. 

Paragraph 3. Pumps, pipes, conductors, and fittings used to con- 
duct milk, cream, or mixtures of milk or cream in the manufacture of 
oleomargarin shall be of sanitary construction, with smooth inner 
and outer surfaces of noncorrosive material or coated with nickel, 
tin, or other approved material, readily demountable for cleaning, 
and shall be kept clean and sanitary. 

Section 6. Paragraph ./.No meat or product shall contain any 
substance which impairs its wholesomeness, nor contain, except as 
permitted by paragraphs 2, 3, and 8 of this section, any dye, preserva- 
tive, or added chemical. 

Paragraph 2. There may be added to meat and products common 
salt, sugar, wood smoke, cider vinegar, wine vinegar, malt vinegar, 
sugar vinegar, glucose vinegar, spirit vinegar, pure spices, saltpeter, 
and nitrate of soda. Benzoate of soda may be added to meat and 
products only when declared on the label, as provided by paragraph 
9 of section 9 of regulation 17. 

Paragraph 3. Only harmless coloring matters may be used, and 
these only with the approval of and in such manner as may be desig- 
nated by the department. Dyes may be used in or upon the products 
only in the manner and under the conditions following: 

(a) The dyes may be mixed with prepared fats, such as lard and 
lard compounds. 

(b) The dyes may be used for coloring sausage casings or other 
casings, by dipping or application, provided the character cf the 
casing is such that the dye does not penetrate into the meat food 
product contained in the casing. If cloth casings are used, they shall 
be coated with uncolored paraffin before the application of the color. 

(c) When artificial coloring matter is used, the product shall be 
marked or labeled as required by paragraph 2 of section 3 of regula- 
tion 16 and paragraph 10 of section 9 of regulation 17. 

Paragraph 4- Sausage shall not contain cereal in excess of 2 per 
cent. 

Paragraph 5. Water or ice shall not be added to sausage except for 
the purpose of facilitating grinding, chopping, and mixing, in which 
case the added water or ice shall not exceed 3 per cent, except that 
sausages of the class which are smoked or cooked, such as Frankfort 
style, Vienna style, and Bologna style, may contain added water in 



EEG. 18. PREPARATION" OF MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 51 

excess of 3 per cent, but not in excess of an amount necessary to 
make the product palatable. 

Paragraph 6. No " compound," lard substitute, lard, or lard com- 
pound shall contain added water. 

Paragraph 7. The use of substances necessary for the proper 
preparation, clarification, or refining of meat and products may be 
permitted, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
provided they do not impair the quality of the meat or product and 
are eliminated during the further process of manufacture; as, for 
example, the use of bicarbonate of soda and fuller's earth in the prep- 
aration of fats and the use of sal soda or lime in the cleansing of 
tripe. 

Paragraph 8. When no substance is used in the preparation or 
packing thereof which, either in kind or in proportion, conflicts with 
the laws of the foreign country to which they are to be exported, 
and the foreign purchaser so directs in writing, meat food products 
for export to such foreign country may contain preservatives in 
accordance with such direction. Such products shall be prepared 
and packed in compartments of the establishment separate and apart 
from the compartments in which any meat or product is prepared or 
packed for domestic use or consumption, except as permitted by 
paragraph 9 of this section, and shall be kept separate. 

Paragraph 9. The packing of articles which are prepared, as pro- 
vided for in paragraph 8 of this section, with any preservative not 
permitted by paragraph 2 of this section may be done in the regular 
packing room, provided no other meat or product be allowed in the 
packing room during the time of such packing. After the packing 
is completed, the packing room shall be thoroughly cleansed of the 
preservative before the packing of other articles therein is resumed. 
A separate room or compartment constructed of tight partitions or 
walls shall be set apart for storing the preservatives, trays, and other 
appliances used in connection with the packing. This room or com- 
partment shall be held under a lock furnished by the department, 
the key of which shall not leave the custody of a bureau employee. 

Paragraph 10. The packing of all articles under paragraphs 8 
and 9 of this section shall be conducted under the personal super- 
vision of a bureau employee. 

Paragraph 11. No article prepared or packed for export under 
paragraph 8 or 9 of this section shall be sold or offered for sale for 
domestic use or consumption, unless and until destroyed for food 
purposes under the personal supervision of a bureau employee. 

Paragraph 12. The contents of the container of any article pre- 
pared or packed for export under paragraph 8 or- 9 of this section 
shall not be removed, in whole or in part, prior to exportation, except 
under the supervision of a bureau employee. If such contents be 



52 BEG. 18. PREPARATION OF MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 

removed prior to exportation^ then the article shall be either repacked, 
in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 8 or 9 and para- 
graph 10 of this section, or destroyed for food purposes under the 
personal supervision of a bureau employee. 

Section 7. Paragraph 1. Any canned meat or product which re- 
quires sterilization to preserve it shall be sterilized on the same day 
that the cans are filled. Defective or leaky cans discovered after the 
process of sterilization has been completed shall not be repaired or 
repacked unless (a) the repairing or repacking be completed within 
six hours after the process of sterilization has been completed, or 
(b) if their defective or leaky condition be discovered during an 
afternoon run, they be held in coolers of a temperature not exceeding 
34° F. until the following day, when they may be repaired or re- 
packed, Sterilization will be deemed completed within the meaning 
of this paragraph when the cans have sufficiently cooled for inspection 
and handling. The contents of all defective or leaky cans not re- 
paired or repacked in compliance with this paragraph shall be con- 
demned. 

Paragraph 2. Sausage prepared or packed in oil shall be heated 
to a temperature of at least 160° F. and this temperature maintained 
within the can for not less than 30 minutes. Cans should show 
good vacuum. 

Paragraph 3. Meat and products cooked in official establishments 
shall be cooked only in such manner as may be approved by the 
chief of bureau. 

Paragraph 4- Inasmuch as it can not certainly be determined, by 
any present known method of inspection, whether the muscle tissue 
of pork contains trichina?, and inasmuch as live trichina? are dangerous 
to health, no article, of a kind prepared customarily to be eaten 
without cooking, shall contain any muscle tissue of pork unless the 
pork has been subjected to a temperature sufficient to destroy all 
live trichina?, or unless it be subjected to some other treatment, if 
any be discovered, hereafter approved by the chief of bureau, suf- 
ficient to destroy all live trichina?. 

Section 8. Unless labeled at once, canned meat and products 
shall be marked so as to maintain their identity until the final label 
is attached. 

Section 9. Paragraph 1. The only animal casings that may be 
used as containers of any meat or product are those from cattle, 
sheep, swine, or goats. 

Paragraph 2. Casings for meat and products shall be carefully 
inspected by bureau employees. Only those which have been care- 
fully washed and thoroughly flushed with clean water, are suitable 
for containers, are clean, and are passed on such inspection, shall 
be used. 



REG. 18. PREPARATION OF MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 53 

Paragraph 3. Portions of casings which show infestation with 
(Esophagostomum or other nodule-producing parasite, and weasands 
infested with the larvas of Hypoderraa lineatum, shall be rejected, 
except that when the infestation is slight and the nodules and larva3 
are removed, the casing or weasand may be passed. 

Paragraph 4. Intestines shall not be used as ingredients of meat 
food products. 

Paragraph 5. The fermenting and sliming of hog and sheep casings 
shall be done only in compartments separate from those in which 
either edible or inedible products are handled. 

Section 10. Paragraph 1. Heads for use in the preparation of 
meat food products shall be split and the bodies of the teeth, the 
turbinated and ethmoid bones, ear tubes, and horn butts removed 
and the heads then thoroughly cleaned. 

Paragraph 2. Kidneys for use in the preparation of meat food pro- 
ducts shall first be freely sectioned and then thoroughly soaked and 
washed. All detached kidneys, including beef kidneys detached 
with kidney fat, shall be inspected before being used in or shipped 
from the establishment. 

Paragraph 3. Cattle paunches and hog stomachs for use in the. 
preparation of meat food products shall be thoroughly cleaned on 
all surfaces and parts immediately after being emptied of their 
contents. 

Paragraph Jj-. Tonsils shall be removed and shall not be used as 
ingredients of meat food products. 

Section 11. No blood which comes in contact with the surface of 
the body of an animal or is otherwise contaminated shall be collected 
for food purposes. Only blood from animals the carcasses of which 
are inspected and passed may be used for meat food products. The 
defibrination of blood intended for food purposes shall not be per- 
formed with the hands. 

Section 12. Lard which is to be labeled "pure lard" shall be pre- 
pared in equipment used exclusively for that product. Pipes used 
to convey leaf lard and pipes used to convey other kinds of lard shall 
be so arranged that the identity of each product shall be maintained 
until the product is properly labeled. 

Section 13. Samples of meat and products, water, dyes, chemicals, 
preservatives, spices, or other articles in any official or exempted 
establishment shall be taken, without cost to the department, for 
examination, as often as may be deemed necessary by the bureau. 

Section 14. No dye, chemical, preservative, or other substance, the 
use of which is prohibited by these regulations, shall be brought into 
or kept in an official establishment. 



54 EEG. 19. MAEKET INSPECTION. 

Section 15. No mixture which does not contain a considerable and 
definite proportion of inspected and passed meat or products shall 
bear the inspection legend or any abbreviation or representation 
thereof. If any mixture of which meat or product is an ingredient 
contains only inspected and passed meat or product, and such 
ingredient is not a considerable and definite proportion thereof, and 
any reference is made to inspection on the label or container thereof, 
such reference shall be in the following form: "The meat contained 
herein has been inspected and passed at an establishment where 
Federal inspection is maintained." Any mixture which does not 
contain a definite or considerable proportion of any meat or product 
may be transported in interstate or foreign commerce without being 
inspected or labeled under these regulations, but subject to the 
provisions and requirements of the food and drugs act and the 
regulations made thereunder: Provided, That where such mixture is 
prepared in a part of an official establishment, the sanitation of that 
part of the establishment shall be supervised by bureau employees 
and the meat or product used as an ingredient therein shall be 
inspected before it enters the mixture. 

REGULATION 19. MARKET INSPECTION. 

Section 1 . Paragraph 1 . Market inspection may be established to 
provide for the interstate transportation or export, from public 
markets and other places, of portions of inspected and passed meat 
and products which, when cut or otherwise removed from a marked 
carcass, part^ or container, do not show the inspection legend. Each, 
city in which market inspection is established shall be assigned an 
official number by the chief of bureau, and all articles transported 
under such inspection shall bear the inspection legend and the official 
number of the city. 

Paragraph, 2. Persons granted inspection under paragraph 1 of 
this section shall conform to the requirements of the department 
governing sanitation, the use of dyes, chemicals, and preservatives, 
and such other matters as may be specified from time to time by the 
chief of bureau as applicable thereto. 

Section 2. Unmarked portions cut from a marked carcass or part 
or removed from a marked container, under market inspection, for 
interstate transportation or for export, shall be inspected by a 
bureau employee at the time they are so cut or removed, and, if 
found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, 
shall be marked with the inspection legend. Whenever practicable, 
the brand shall be applied to the meat itself. When this can not be 
done, the container thereof shall be marked, for interstate transpor- 
tation, as required by regulation 16, or, for export, as required by 
regulation 24. 



REGS. 20, 21, 22. EEPOETS ; APPEALS; COOPERATION. 55 

REGULATION 20. REPORTS. 

Section .1. Reports of the work of inspection carried on in every 
official establishment shall be forwarded to the department by the 
inspector in charge, on such blank forms and in such manner as 
may be specified by the. chief of bureau. 

Section 2. Bureau employees shall make daily reports of the 
amounts of articles handled or prepared in the subdivisions of the 
establishments to which they are assigned, and of such other things 
as the chief of bureau may require. 

Section 3. Each official establishment shall furnish to bureau 
employees accurate information as to all matters needed by thern for 
making their reports pursuant to section 2 of this regulation. 

Section 4. Reports on sanitation shall be made by the bureau 
employees assigned to the various subdivisions of official establish- 
ments to the inspector in charge, and by the inspector in charge to 
the chief of bureau. 

REGULATION 21. APPEALS. 

Section 1. When the action of an inspector in condemning any 
meat or product is questioned, appeal may be made to the inspector 
in charge, and from his decision appeal may be made to the chief of 
bureau, or to the Secretary of Agriculture, whose decision shall be 
final. 

REGULATION 22. COOPERATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES. 

Section 1. Inspectors in charge shall cooperate, whenever practi- 
cable to do so in» compliance with these regulations, with State, 
municipal, and other local officials in matters pertaining to meat 
inspection. 

Section 2. Inspectors in charge shall confer with such officials at 
their stations and inform them of the Federal meat inspection service, 
what the bureau is accomplishing in that particular locality, and in 
turn ascertain what is being done by the local officials. Such con- 
ferences shall be had from time to time as may be practicable and 
mutually agreeable, with a view to Federal and local officials each 
being helpful to the other in handling problems where assistance is 
required for the good of the service, and particularly for the purpose 
of preventing the use of unfit meat and products for food. 

Section 3. If it be proposed to adopt a definite cooperative 
arrangement, the details thereof shall be submitted to and approved 
by the chief of bureau before it is put into effect. 



56 EEGS. 23 24. BRIBERY, ETC. ; EXPORT STAMPS AND CERTIFICATES. 

REGULATION 23. BRIBERY, COUNTERFEITING, ETC. 

Section 1 . It is a felony, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for 
any person, firm, or corporation to give, pay, or offer, directly or 
indirectly, to any bureau employee authorized to perform any duty 
prescribed by the meat inspection act or these regulations, any money 
or other thing of value with intent to influence such employee in the 
discharge of his duty. It is also a felony, punishable by fine and 
imprisonment, for any bureau employee engaged in the performance 
of any duty prescribed by the meat inspection act or these regulations 
to receive or accept from any person, firm, or corporation engaged in 
interstate or foreign commerce any gift, money, or other thing of 
value given with any purpose or intent whatsoever. 

Section 2. It is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprison- 
ment, for any person, firm, or corporation, or officer, agent, or employee 
thereof, to forge, counterfeit, simulate, or falsely represent, or without 
proper authority to use, fail to use, or detach, or knowingly or wrong- 
fully to alter, deface, or destroy, or to fail to deface or destroy, any 
of the marks, stamps, tags, labels, or other identification devices pro- 
vided for in the meat inspection act or in and as directed by these 
regulations, on any carcass, part of carcass, or the food product or 
containers thereof, subject to the provisions of the meat inspection 
act, or any certificate in relation thereto authorized or required in 
the meat inspection act or as directed in these regulations. 

Section 3. Any meat or product which bears, or the container of 
which bears, the inspection legend or any other mark prescribed by 
the meat inspection act, the imported meat act, or these regulations, 
shall be subject to inspection at any time or place. 

Section 4. Bureau employees shall report, in such form and manner 
as the chief of bureau shall prescribe, any meat or product which 
bears, or the container of which bears, the inspection legend or any 
other mark prescribed by the meat inspection act, the imported meat 
act, or these regulations, discovered by them outside of official 
establishments and which is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or 
in any way unfit for human food, so that criminal proceedings, pro- 
ceedings for the seizure of any such article under the food and drugs 
act, or other proceedings may be instituted, as the facts may warrant. 

REGULATION 24. EXPORT STAMPS AND CERTIFICATES. 1 

Section 1 . Paragraph 1 . A numbered meat inspection stamp shall 
be affixed to each outside container (except cloth wrappings) of any 
inspected and passed meat or product for export. 

i Attention is directed to the requirements of regulation 25 governing transportation, and to the require- 
ment of paragraph 11 of section of regulation 18 that articles prepared under said section for export be 
destroyed for food purposes before being sold or offered for sale for domestic use or consumption. 



KEG. 24; EXPOET STAMPS AND CEETIFICATES. 57 

Paragraph 2. Such stamps shall be securely affixed either (a) in a 
grooved space made by removing a portion of the wood of sufficient 
size to admit the stamp, or (b) on either end of the package, provided 
that the sides thereof are made to project at least one-eighth of an 
inch to afford the necessary protection from abrasion. 

Paragraph 3. The cloth wrapping used as an outside container of 
any inspected and passed meat or product for export shall bear the 
inspection legend and the establishment number applied by an ink 
brand. 

Section .2. Paragraph 1. Upon application of the exporter, the 
inspector in charge is authorized to issue certificates for shipments of 
inspected and passed meat and products to any foreign country. 
Certificates should be issued at the time the articles leave the estab- 
lishment; if not issued at that time, they maybe issued later only 
after identification and reinspection of the articles. 

Paragraph 2. Export certificates shall be issued in serial numbers 
and in triplicate form. Each certificate shall show the names of the 
exporter and the consignee, the destination, the numbers of the 
stamps, if any, attached to the articles to be exported, the shipping 
marks, the kind of product, and the weight. 

Paragraph 3. Only one certificate shall be issued for each consign- 
ment, unless otherwise directed by the chief of bureau. 

Paragraph 4- The original certificate shall be delivered to the 
shipper and shall be used only for the purpose of effecting the trans- 
portation and delivery of the consignment. 

Paragraph 5. The duplicate of the certificate shall be delivered to 
the shipper. It shall be used only as the certificate required by the 
meat inspection act to be delivered to the chief officer of the vessel 
on which the export shipment is made and without which no clear- 
ance shall be given to any vessel having aboard any meat or product. 
Such chief offioer shall file such duplicate with the customs officer at 
the time of filing the master's manifest or the supplemental manifest. 

Paragraph 6. The triplicate of the certificate shall be retained by 
the inspector in charge issuing the same and forwarded to the depart- 
ment for filing. 

Paragraph 7. Under no circumstances shall the original or the tripli- 
cate of such certificate be used for the purpose for which it is pre- 
scribed by paragraph 5 of this section that the duplicate shall be used. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. No person operating any steam or sailing 
vessel shall receive for transportation or transport from the United 
States to Great Britain or Ireland, or any of the countries of con- 
tinental Europe, or to Argentina, Peru, Mexico, or the French Antilles, 
any meat or product, except ship stores, unless and until a certificate 
of inspection or exemption from inspection covering the same has been 



58 REG. 2-4. EXPOKT STAMPS AND CERTIFICATES, 

issued and delivered as provided in this regulation. The requirement 
of export certificates is waived for meat and products exported to 
countries other than those named in this paragraph, and to allcountries 
in cases of meat and products covered by exemption export certificates 
issued pursuant to paragraph 2 of this section. 

Paragraph 2. Upon application to the chief of bureau, exemption 
export certificates, showing exemption from inspection, shall be issued 
by the department, for each consignment for export, covering articles 
permitted by sections 7 and 8 of regulation 25 to be transported in 
interstate or foreign commerce without inspection. 

Section" 4. Numbered inedible-product stamps and certificates of 
a distinctive color may be issued, upon request of the shipper, for 
export shipments of casings, bladders, hoofs, horns, and similar 
inedible animal products. 

Section 5. No tallow, stearin, oleo oil, or the rendered fat derived 
from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats that has not been inspected, passed, 
and marked in compliance with these regulations shall be exported, 
unless the shipper files with the collector of customs at the port from 
which the export shipment is made an affidavit by the exporter that 
such article is inedible. 

Section 6. Paragraph L Numbered stamps and certificates of a 
distinctive color, to be known as preservative stamps and certificates, 
shall be issued to identify all articles prepared or packed with preserv- 
atives for export. The stamps shall be securely affixed to containers 
of the articles before they leave the establishment, in the manner pre- 
scribed by paragraph 2 of section 1 of this regulation. Unless, upon 
special application to him, the chief of bureau shall otherwise direct, 
the certificates shall be issued before the articles leave the establish- 
ment, and shall be issued and used in the same way and shall serve 
the same purposes, respectively, as the certificates issued pursuant to 
section 2 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 2. Prior to export no preservative stamp required by 
this section shall be detached from the container except under the 
personal supervision of a bureau employee. If the preservative stamp 
be detached, then the article in the container shall be either repacked, 
in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 8 or 9 and paragraph 
10 of section 6 of regulation 18, or destroyed for food purposes under 
the supervision of a bureau employee. 



REG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 59 

REGULATION 25. TRANSPORTATION. 1 

Section 1. No carrier or other person shall transport or receive for 
transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia 
to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any 
place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a foreign 
country, any article derived wholly or in part from cattle, sheep, 
swine, or goats unless and until a certificate is made and furnished to 
him in one of the forms prescribed therefor in this regulation: Pro- 
vided, however, That any such article offered for importation into the 
United States may be transported and received for transportation 
from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into another 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia, without such a certifi- 
cate, if such meat or product is conveyed, prior to inspection, in cars, 
wagons, vehicles, or packages, sealed with special import meat seals 
of the Department of Agriculture or with customs or consular seals 
as provided in paragraph 8 of section 7 of regulation 27. 

Section 2. Paragraph, 1. For the purposes of these regulations the 
United States parcel post shall be deemed a carrier, and the provi- 
sions of these regulations relating to transportation by carriers shall 
apply, so far as they may be applicable, to transportation by parcel 
post. 

Paragraph 2. For the purposes of these regulations every ferry and 
ferry line shall be deemed a carrier, and the provisions of these regu- 
lations relating to transportation by carriers shall apply to transpor- 
tation by ferry or ferry line of any meat or product loaded on a truck, 
wagon, cart, or other vehicle, or otherwise prepared for transportation. 

Section 3. When any shipment of any meat or product is offered to 
any carrier for transportation within the United States as a part of a 
foreign movement, the same certificate shall be required as if the 
shipment were destined to a point within the United States. 

Section 4. Paragraph 1. Jobbers, wholesalers, and others who do 
no slaughtering or processing and who receive meat and products 
which have not been processed other than under inspection in com- 
pliance with these regulations may break bulk, repack, and ship the 
same in interstate commerce under section 5 of this regulation, pro- 
vided that each article so shipped bears the inspection legend and is 

1 The transportation of any meat or product from one point in a State or Territory to another point in the 
same State or Territory, when in the course of shipment the article is taken through another State or Ter- 
ritory, is interstate commerce. 

In connection -with the wording of the inspection legend as required in certificates under this regula- 
tion, attention is furthur directed to sections 2 and 3 of regulation 1. 

Attention is directed to the facts that the meat inspection act prohibits the transportation of any meat 
or product which does not comply with the law and these regulations, and makes a violation either of the 
act or of these regulations a criminal offense punishable by a fine of S10,000 and imprisonment for two years. 

Attention is also directed to the additional requirements of regulation 24 governing export stamps and 
certificates, and to section 10 of regulation 16. 



60 EBG. 25. TEANSPOKTATION". 

sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food at the time of 
such shipment. 

Paragraph 2. Jobbers, wholesalers, and others who do no slaughter- 
ing or processing and who receive meat and products which have not 
been processed other than under inspection in compliance with these 
regulations may ship such articles in interstate commerce under sec- 
tion 5 of this regulation in the original containers in which the same 
were received by them, provided that such containers bear the inspec- 
tion legend and the articles are sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit 
for human food at the time of such shipment. 

Paragraphs. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this section 
apply to branch houses of official establishments when, and only when, 
no slaughtering or processing of any character is done in such branch 
houses. 

Paragraph J h Nothing contained in this section shall be construed 
as limiting the authority of bureau employees under other regulations 
to make inspections and reinspections of articles bearing marks of 
inspection. 

Section 5. When any meat or product which has been inspected 
and passed and bears the inspection legend is offered to any carrier 
for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia to or through another State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United 
States, or to a foreign country, the carrier shall require, and the 
shipper shall make and deliver to the carrier, a certificate in the 
following form, except as provided in section 6 of this regulation: 

Date , 191 . 

Name of carrier 

Skipper 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following described meat or meat food products, which 
are offered for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, have been inspected and 
passed according to the act of Congress of June 30, 1906, are so marked, and at this 
date are sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 



The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full. 
This certificate may be stamped upon or incorporated in any form 
which is ordinarily used in the transportation of meat and products. 



KEG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 61 

Certificates of this form or copies thereof need not be forwarded to 
the department at Washington. 

Section 6. Paragraph, 1. Any meat or product which has been 
inspected and passed may be transported from one official establish- 
ment to any other official establishment without each article being 
marked with the inspection legend, provided that the same is 
placed in a railroad car which is sealed 1 by a bureau employee with 
the official seal of the department bearing the inspection legend. 
Unless 25 per cent or more of the contents of each car consist of 
meat and products not marked with the inspection legend, transpor- 
tation will not be permitted under this paragraph. 

Paragraph, 2, When articles are offered for transportation under 
paragraph 1 of this section the carrier shall require, and the shipper 
shall make and deliver to the carrier, a certificate in duplicate in the 
following form : 2 

Date , 191 . 

Name of carrier 

Establishment number of consignor 

Point of shipment r. 

Establishment number of consignee 

Destination , 

Car number and initials 

I hereby certify that the following described meat or meat food products have been 
inspected and passed according to the act of Congress of June 30, 1906. They are 
not marked "U. S. inspected and passed," but have been placed in the above car 
under the supervision of an employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry and the cr 
has been sealed by him with Government seals Nos and 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 

The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in 
full. This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, 
bill of lading, or other form ordinarily used in the transportation 
of meat. The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately 
by the initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
Washington, D. C. 

For the purpose of the certificate under this paragraph all articles 
in cars permitted by paragraph 1 of this section to be sealed shall be 
deemed to be "not marked." 

i Attention is directed to the law which provides a penalty of fine and imprisonment for breaking a seal 
on such cars without authority. 
2 For convenience in filing it is requested that these certificates be made on paper 5i by 8 inches in size. 



(32 BEG. 25. TBAN SPORT ATJON". 

Paragraph 3. When shipments are made under paragraph 1 of this 
section the inspector in charge at the point of origin shall immediately 
notify the chief of bureau and the inspector in charge at the point 
of destination. 

Paragraph 4- Inspected and passed articles may be transported 
from one official establishment to any other official establishment, 
without each article being marked with the inspection legend, in a 
wagon securely sealed by a bureau employee with the official seal 
of the department bearing the inspection legend. Only wagons 
properly equipped for the purpose may be sealed under this paragraph. 

Paragraph 5. Except as. provided in paragraph 2 of section 14 of 
this regulation, seals affixed under this section shall be broken by 
bureau employees, and no person other than a bureau employee 
shall detach, break, change, or tamper with any such seal in any 
way whatever. 

Section 7. When amrmeat or product which has not been inspected 
and passed under these regulations is offered for transportation 
from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to or through 
another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any 
place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a foreign 
country, by any retail butcher or retail dealer supplying a customer, 
who holds a certificate of exemption issued in compliance with these 
regulations, the carrier shall require, and such retail butcher or 
retail dealer shall make and deliver to the carrier, a certificate in 
duplicate in the following form : * 

Date : ... , 191 . 

Name of carrier , . >. 

Shipper . 

Point of shipment . . 

Consignee 

Destination 

Number of exemption certificate 

I hereby certify that I am a retail butcher or a retail dealer in meat or meat food 
products; that the following described meat or meat food products are offered for 
shipment in interstate or foreign commerce to a customer, as exempted from inspec- 
tion according to the act of Congress of June 30, 1906, under certificate issued to me 
by the United States Department of Agriculture, and that at this date they are sound, 
healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, and contain no preservative or coloring 
matter or other substance prohibited by the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture 
governing meat inspection. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper. ) 



1 For convenience in filing it is requested that these certificates be made on paper 5J by 8 inches in size. 



REG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 63 

The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full, 
and each certificate shall show the exemption number of the shipper. 
This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, bill of 
lading, or other form ordinarily used in the transportation of meat. 
The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the 
initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Section" 8. When cattle, sheep, swine, or goats have been 
slaughtered by a farmer on the farm, and any meat or product 
derived therefrom is offered to a carrier for transportation from one 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia to or through another 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any place under 
the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a foreign country, the 
carrier may so transport such meat or product which is identified 
as derived from any of such animals slaughtered by a farmer on the 
farm. The carrier shall require, and the shipper shall make and 
deliver to the carrier, a certificate in duplicate in the following form: x 

Date.... 191 . 

Name of carrier . . . 

Shipper 

Point of shipment . _ . 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following described uninspected meat or meat food products 
are from animals slaughtered by a farmer on the farm, and are offered for transporta- 
tion in interstate or foreign commerce as exempted from inspection according to the 
act of Congress of June 30, 1906, and that at this date they are sound, healthful, whole- 
some, and fit for human food, and contain no preservative or coloring matter or other 
substance prohibited by the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture governing 
meat inspection. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 

The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full. 
This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, bill 
of lading, or other form ordinarily used in the transportation of meat. 
The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the 
initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Section 9. All waybills, transfer bills, running slips, or conductor's 
cards accompanying an interstate or foreign shipment of any meat 

1 For convenience in filing it is requested that these certificates be made on paper 5J by 8 inches in size. 



64 REG. 25. TEANSPOETATION. 

or product shall have embodied therein, stamped thereon, or attached 
thereto a signed statement which shall be evidence to connecting 
carriers that the proper shipper's certificate, as required by sections 
5, 6, 7, and 8 of this regulation, is on file with the initial carrier; and 
no connecting carrier shall receive for transportation or transport 
any interstate or foreign shipment of any meat or product unless the 
waybill, transfer bill, running slip, or conductor's card accompanying 
the same includes the aforesaid signed statement in one of the follow- 
ing forms : 

When shipment is made under section 5 or 6 : 

(Name of transportation company.) 
United States inspected and passed, as evidenced by shipper's certificate on file 
with initial carrier. 

(Signed) , Agent, 

When shipment is made under section 7 or 8 : 

(Name of transportation company.) 
Exempted from inspection, as evidenced by shipper's certificate on file with initial 
carrier. 

(Signed) , Agent. 

Signatures of agents to statements required under this section 
shall be written in full. 

Section 10. When it is claimed that any meat or product, which 
has theretofore been inspected and passed and marked with the 
inspection legend, has become unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, 
or in any way unfit for human food after it has been transported 
for sale away from an official establishment, then, in order to ascer- 
tain whether it is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way 
unfit for human food, the same may be transported from one State 
or Territory or the District of Columbia to any official establishment 
in the same or another State or Territory or the District of Columbia 
if a written permit in duplicate for such shipment is first obtained 
from the inspector in charge of the establishment to which the ship- 
ment is destined. In case of every such shipment both the original 
and the duplicate of the permit shall be surrendered to the carrier, 
and the carrier shall require, and the shipper shall make and deliver 
to the carrier, a certificate in duplicate in the following form: 1 

Date 191 . 

Name of carrier 

Consignor r 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

Number of permit 

1 For convenience in filing it is requested that these certificales he made on paper 51 by 8 inches in size. 



REG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 65 

I hereby certify that the following described meat or meat food products have been 
inspected and passed according to the act of Congress of June 30, 1906, and are so 
marked. It is alleged that the said meat or meat food products are unsound, unhealth- 
ful, unwholesome, and unfit for human food. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 

(Business or occupation of shipper.) 

(Address of shipper.) 



The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full, 
and the certificate shall in every case contain a description and the 
weight of the meat or product. This certificate shall be separate and 
apart from any waybill, bill of lading, or other form ordinarily used 
in the transportation of meat. One of these certificates and the dupli- 
cate copy of the inspector's permit shall be retained by the carrier; 
the other copy of the certificate and the original inspector's permit 
shall be forwarded immediately to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, Washington, D. C. 

As evidence to connecting carriers that the proper shipper's 
certificate as required by this paragraph is on file with the initial 
carrier, the waybills, transfer bills, running slips, or conductor's 
cards accompanying such shipments shall have embodied therein, 
stamped thereon, or attached thereto a signed statement in the fol- 
lowing form: 

(Name of transportation company.) 

Meat or meat food product alleged to be unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit 
for food, as evidenced by shipper's certificate on file with initial carrier. 

(Signed) , Agent. 

The signature of the agent shall be written in full. 

Upon the arrival of the shipment at the establishment, a careful 
inspection shall be made of the meat or product by a bureau inspec- 
tor, and if it is found that the article is sound, healthful, whole- 
some, and fit for human food, the same may be received into the 
establishment ; but if the article is found to be unsound, unhealthful, 
unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food, the same shall 
at once be stamped "U. S. inspected and condemned" and disposed 
of in accordance with these regulations. 

No meat or product which is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, 
or in any way unfit for human food shall be transported from an 
official establishment under this section, but it shall be disposed 
of at the establishment in accordance with these regulations. 
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66 BEG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 

Section 11. Any uninspected meat or product, or any inspected 

and passed meat or product, which is known to have become unsound, 

unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human food, may 

be transported from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia 

to or through another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, 

or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a 

foreign country, for industrial use, provided it is first denatured or 

otherwise destroyed for food purposes. The shipper shall not offer 

nor the carrier accept for interstate or foreign transportation any 

such article until it has been denatured or otherwise destroyed for 

food purposes. The carrier shall require, and the shipper shall make 

and deliver to the carrier, a certificate in duplicate in the following 

form: * 

Date ,191 . 

Name of carrier 

Consignor 

Point of shipment - - 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following described inedible meat or meat food products 
have been denatured or otherwise rendered unavailable for food purposes. 
Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 

(Business or occupation of shipper.) 

(Address of shipper.) 

The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full. 
This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, bill 
of lading, or other form ordinarily used in the transportation of meat. 
The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the 
initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

As evidence to connecting carriers that the proper shipper's cer- 
tificate is on file with the initial carrier, the waybills, transfer bills, 
running slips, or conductor's cards accompanying such shipments 
shall have embodied therein, stamped thereon, or attached thereto a 
signed statement in the following form: 

(Name of transportation company). 
Unsound, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for food, and denatured or otherwise 
rendered unavailable for food purposes, as evidenced by shipper's certificate on file 
with initial carrier. 

(Signed) , Agent. 

The signature of the agent shall be written in full. 

> For convenience infiling it is requested that these certificates be made on paper 5J by 8 inches fn size. 



REG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 67 

Section 12. When inedible grease or tallow or other inedible article 
derived wholly or in part from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, suitable 
only for industrial use, is of such a nature or for such an industrial 
use that it is impracticable to denature the same, such product may be 
transported from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia 
to or through another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, 
or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a 
foreign country, without denaturing, if both ends of the containers 
are painted white and conspicuously stenciled or burned with the true 
name of the product and the word "inedible" in letters not less than 
two inches high, and the other provisions of this section are complied 
with. The carrier shall require, and the shipper shall make and 
deliver to the carrier, a certificate in duplicate in the following form : i 

Date , 191 . 

INEDIBLE FAT. 

Name of carrier 

Consignor 

Point of shipment 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following described fat is not capable of being used as food 
by man, is suitable only for industrial purposes, is not for food purposes, and is of such 
a character or for such a use that denaturing is impracticable. I further certify that 
there is now on file with-the Secretary of Agriculture a declaration by the establish- 
ment in which said fat was prepared, or from which it is offered for shipment, in com- 
pliance with section 6 of regulation 4 of the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture 
governing meat inspection. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 



(Signature of shipper.) 

(Business or occupation of shipper.) 

(Address of shipper.) 

The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in full. 
This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, bill 
of lading, or other form ordinarily used in the transportation of meat. 
The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the 
initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

As evidence to connecting carriers that the proper shipper's cer- 
tificate is on file with the initial carrier, the waybills, transfer bills, 
running slips, or conductor's cards accompanying such shipments 

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68 BEG. 25. TRANSPORTATION. 

shall have embodied therein, stamped thereon, or attached thereto 
a signed statement in the following form : 

(Name of transportation company.) 
Inedible and suitable only for industrial purposes, as evidenced by shipper's cer- 
tificate on file with initial carrier. 

(Signed) Agent. 

The signature of the agent shall be written in full. 

Section 13. All original certificates delivered to a carrier in accord- 
ance with this regulation shall be filed separate and apart from all 
its other papers and records and retained by it for one year, in order 
that they may be readily checked in such manner as the Secretary 
of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe. 

Section 14. Paragraph 1. Shipments of inspected and passed 
meat and products that bear the inspection legend may be diverted 
from the original destination without a reinspection of the articles, 
or in case of wreck or other extraordinary emergency the carrier may 
divert such shipments from the original destination without a rein- 
spection of the articles, provided the waybills, transfer bills, run- 
ning slips, or conductor's cards accompanying the shipments are 
marked, stamped, or have attached thereto signed statements in 
accordance with section 9 of this regulation. 

Paragraph 2. In case of wreck or other extraordinary emergency, 
the department seals on a car containing any inspected and passed 
meat or product may be broken by the carrier, and, if necessary, the 
articles may be reloaded into another car, or the shipment may be 
diverted from the original destination, without another shipper's 
certificate; but in all such cases the carrier shall immediately report 
the facts by telegraph to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
Washington, D. C. Such report shall include the following informa- 
tion: 

(a) Nature of the emergency. 

(&) Place where seals were broken. 

(c) Original points of shipment and destination. 

(d) Number and initials of the original car. 

{e) Number and initials of the car into which the articles are 
reloaded. 

(/) New destination of the shipment. 
(g) Kind and amount of articles. 

Section 15. The provisions of this regulation do not apply to speci- 
mens of meat and products sent to or by the Department of Agri- 
culture or branches thereof in Washington, D. C, or elsewhere, for 
laboratory examination, exhibition purposes, or other official use. 



REGS. 26, 27. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT; IMPORTS. 69 

REGULATION 26. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. 

Section 1. Inspected and passed meat and products, like unin- 
spected meat and products, shall comply with the provisions of the 
food and drugs act in every respect. Failure to comply renders 
all such articles sold or offered for sale in the District of Columbia or 
any Territory or other place under the jurisdiction of the United 
States, or shipped or delivered for shipment from one State or Terri- 
tory or the District of Columbia to another State or Territory or the 
District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, liable to seizure for 
condemnation, and renders manufacturers, vendors, and shippers in 
appropriate cases amenable to prosecution under the food and drugs 
act. 

REGULATION 27. IMPORTED MEAT AND PRODUCTS. 1 

Section 1. Paragraph 1. This regulation shall apply only to 
meat and products derived from cattle, sheep, swine, and goats. 2 

Paragraph 2. The term United States, as used in this regulation, 
includes Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. 

Section 2. Whenever it shall be determined by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, after due investigation, that the system of meat inspec- 
tion maintained by any foreign, country is not the substantial equiva- 
lent of, or is not as efficient as, the system established and main- 
tained by the United States, or that the inspection made by any 
foreign country is not the substantial equivalent of, or is not as effi- 
cient as, the inspection made by the United States, or that reliance 
can not be placed upon certificates required under this regulation 
from authorities of such foreign country, due notice will be given of 
that fact by proclamation or otherwise, and thereafter no meat or 
product, as to which the inspection or certification is determined to 
be insufficient, shall be admitted into the United States from such 
foreign country. 

Section 3. Paragraph 1. No meat or product of a kind forbidden 
entry into, or forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale in, the country 
in which the animal from which it was derived was slaughtered, or 
in which the article was prepared or processed, shall be admitted 
into the United States. 

Paragraph 2. No meat or product which contains or has been 
treated with any preservative, coloring matter, or other substance, 
except as permitted by regulation 18, shall be admitted into the 
United States. No article of a kind mentioned in paragraph 4 of 

1 Imported meat and products after admission into the United States are deemed and treated as domestic 
articles (38 Stat. 159). Attention is invited particularly to regulations 1, 16, 17 (sec. 7-12 incl.); 18 (sec. 3, 
6, 9 (par. 1), 15); 25, 26. 

2 The importation of edible products derived wholly or in part from animals other than cattle, sheep, 
swine, and goats is governed by the food and drugs act as amended and the rules and regulations made 
pursuant thereto. 



70 KEG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

section 7 of regulation 18, unless treated in compliance therewith, 
shall be admitted into the United States. 

Paragraph 3. No meat or product which bears, or the container of 
which bears, any statement, design, or device prohibited by sections 
7 to 11, inclusive, of regulation 17, or which is in any respect mis- 
branded or adulterated within the meaning of the food and drugs act, 
as amended, shall be admitted into the United States. 

Paragraph 4- No meat trimmings in pieces too small to permit of 
adequate inspection upon arrival shall be admitted into the United 
States. 

Paragraph 5. No inedible grease, inedible tallow, or other inedible 
rendered fat shall be admitted into the United States unless both ends 
of each container, such as barrels, tierces, or tank cars, are painted 
white and conspicuously stenciled or burned with the name of the 
product and the word "inedible" in letters not less than two inches 
high, or, in the case of tank cars, not less than four inches high. 

Paragraph 6. Grease, tallow, and other rendered fat which is capa- 
ble of being used for food by man, for inspection purposes will be 
dealt with as edible unless otherwise declared on the invoice. Ship- 
ments of grease, tallow, and other rendered fat offered for importa- 
tion for industrial purposes should be accompanied by a declaration 
stating that fact. • 

Section 4. No meat or product offered for importation from any 
foreign country shall be admitted into the United States, except upon 
compliance with all the requirements of this regulation applicable to it. 

Section 5. Paragraph 1. Except as provided in section 11 of this 
regulation, each consignment containing any meat or product, con- 
signed to the United States from the foreign country of the slaughter 
of the animals from which it was derived, and transported from such 
foreign country without unloading in any other foreign country for 
any purpose except transfer from one carrier to another in the course 
of continuous transportation to the United States, shall be accom- 
panied by a foreign meat inspection certificate in the following form : 

OFFICIAL MEAT INSPECTION CERTIFICATE OF COUNTRY OF SLAUGHTER. 

(For continuous shipment of meat and meat food products to United States.) 

Place Date 

(City.) (Country.) 

I hereby certify that the meat and meat food products herein described were derived 
from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which received ante-mortem and post-mortem 
veterinary inspection at the time of slaughter, and that such meat and meat food 
products are sound, healthful, wholesome, and otherwise fit for human food, and have 
not been treated with, and do not contain, any preservative, coloring matter, or other 
substance not permitted by the regulations of the United States Secretary of 



REG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 71 

Agriculture governing meat inspection, filed with me, and that said meat and meat 
food products have been handled only in a sanitary manner in this country. 

Kind of product. Number of pieces or packages. Weight. 



Identification marks on meats and packages 

Consignor Address 

Consignee Destination 

Shipping marks 

(Signature) 

(Name of official of national foreign government 
authorized to issue inspection certificates for 
meat and meat food products exported to the 
United States.) 

(Official title) 



Note. — A certificate in the above form is required to accompany each consignment 
transported to the United States from the country of the slaughter of the animals from 
which the meat and meat food products are derived, without unloading in any other 
country except to transfer the same from one carrier to another in the course of con- 
tinuous transportation, and to be delivered by the consignee, or his agent, to the 
inspector of the Department of Agriculture at the point of inspection in the United 
States. 

The following information is required to be supplied on the certifi- 
cate by each carrier loading the consignment: 

Loaded at on 

(Date.) (Place.) 

(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.) 

; and, if unloaded at any 

(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.) 

place prior to arrival in the United States, unloaded 

(Date.) 

at , by the 

(Place. ) (Name of carrier. ) 

; and reloaded 

(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.) 



at 

(Date.) (Place.) 
by the 

(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.) (Name of carrier.) 



(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.) 



Paragraph 2. Except as provided in section 11 of this regulation, 
each consignment containing any meat or product consigned to a 
country other than the United States at the time it leaves the foreign 
country of the slaughter of the animals from which it was derived, 
which is reconsigned and transported to the United States from such 
foreign country without unloading in any other foreign country for 
any purpose except transfer from one carrier to another in- the course 



72 REG. 21. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

of continuous transportation to the United States, shall be accom- 
panied by a certificate in the form prescribed by paragraph 1 of this 
section, to which there shall be attached a declaration, made before 
a United States consular officer by the consignor or his agent in the 
country from which consigned to the United States, as follows : 

I (we), the undersigned, do solemnly and truly declare that the meat and meat food 
products described in the annexed certificate, and designated below, arrived in this 
country at 

(Date.) (Place.) 

on 

(Name of vessel or car numbers and intitals.) 

and that the same have not been unloaded in this country for any purpose except 
transfer from the carrier on which the same arrived in this country to another in the 

course of transportation and reloading for transportation to the United States 

.at 

(Date.) (Place.) 

on 

(Name of vessel or car numbers and intitals.) 

Kind of product. Number of pieces or packages. Weight. 



Identification marks on meats and packages 

Consignor in country of slaughter 

Consignee in country of reloading 

Consignee in United States 

Destination 

Shipping marks 

Dated at this 

day of 191 . 

(Signed) 

(Name of shipper or his agent.) 



(Address.) 
(Authentication and seal of United States consul.) 

Paragraph 3. Except as provided in section 1 1 of this regulation, 
each consignment containing any meat or product, the transportation 
of which to the United States from the foreign country of the slaughter 
of the animals from which it was derived has been interrupted by 
unloading in any other foreign country for some purpose other than 
transfer from one carrier to another in the course of continuous 
transportation to the United States, shall be accompanied by a cer- 
tificate in the following form : 



REG. 21. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 73 

OFFICIAL MEAT INSPECTION CERTIFICATE OF COUNTRY OTHER THAN COUNTRY OF 

SLAUGHTER. 

(For shipment of meat and meat food products to United States not continuous from 

country of slaughter. ) 

Place Date 191 . 

(City.) (Country.) 
I hereby certify that the meat and meat food products herein described were origi- 
nally shipped from 

(Country or countries of slaughter.) 
and were accompanied by certificate (or certificates), signed by an official (or officials) 
of the national government (or governments) of 

(Names of country or countries of origin.) 
showing that the meat and meat food products herein described were derived from 
cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which received ante-mortem and post-mortem veterinary 
inspection at the time of slaughter, and that such meat and meat food products were 
sound, healthful, wholesome, and otherwise fit for human food, and had not been treated 
with, and did not contain, any preservative, coloring matter, or other substance not 
permitted by the regulations of the United States Secretary of Agriculture governing 
meat inspection filed with said official (or officials), and that said meat and meat food 
products had been handled only in a sanitary manner in the country (or countries) 
in which the animals from which they were derived were slaughtered. 

I also hereby certify that the meat and meat food products herein described have not 
been treated in this country (in which this certificate is issued) with any preservative, 
coloring matter, or other substance not permitted by the regulations of the United 
States Secretary of Agriculture governing meat inspection, filed with me, and that 
the said meat and meat food products have been inspected in this country (in which 
this certificate is issued) and not found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or 
otherwise unfit for human food, and that said meat and meat food products have been 
handled only in a sanitary manner in this country. 

Kind of product. Number of pieces or packages. "Weight. 



Identification marks on meats and packages 

Consignor Address 

Consignee Destination . 

Shipping marks 

(Signature) 



(Name of official of national foreign government 
authorized to issue inspection certificates for 
meat and meat food products exported to the 
United States.) 



(Official title) . 



Note. — A certificate in the above form is required to accompany each consignment 
the transportation of which to the United States from the country of the slaughter of 
the animals from which the meat and meat food products were derived has been inter- 
rupted by unloading in another country for some purpose other than transfer from one 
carrier to another in the course of continuous transportation, and to be delivered by 
the consignee, or his agent, to the inspector of the Department of Agriculture at the 
point of inspection in the United States. 



74 KEG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

The following information is required, to be supplied on the certifi- 
cate by each carrier loading the consignment: 

Loaded (in the country in which this certificate is issued) 

(Date.) 
at on 

(Place.) (Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.) 

; and, if unloaded at any place 

(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.) 
prior to arrival in the United States, unloaded 

(Date.) 

at by the 

( Place. ) (Name of carrier. ) 

; and reloaded 

(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.) 

at 

(Date.) (Place.) 

on by the 

(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.) (Name of carrier.) 



(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.) 



Paragraph 4- Each foreign meat inspection certificate shall be 
signed by an official authorized by the national government of the 
foreign country in which the meat or product is inspected to sign and 
issue the same. The name of each official authorized to sign and 
issue foreign meat inspection certificates, when submitted to the 
department, will be published, and the chief of bureau shall file with 
each such official a copy of these regulations and copies of amend- 
ments which may hereafter be made thereto. No inspector shall 
accept a certificate unless it is signed by an official whose name has 
been published by the department and whose authority to sign cer- 
tificates has not been revoked. 

Paragraph 5. Each foreign meat inspection certificate shall be in 
the English language, and shall contain a statement of the number 
of pieces or packages, and the total weight of each kind of meat or 
product comprising the consignment, together with a description of 
the identification marks on the meat and products or on the packages 
containing the same, a description of the shipping marks, the name and 
address of the consignor, the name of the consignee, and the final des- 
tination of the consignment in the United States. 

Paragraph 6. Each carrier that receives and loads into boats, cars, 
or other vehicles in any foreign country any consignment of meat 
and products for transportation to the United States shall indorse on 
the foreign meat inspection certificate accompanying it the date and 
place of loading, the name of the vessel, or the numbers and initials 
of the cars, in which loaded, and, if the consignment is unloaded 
at any place prior to arrival in the United States, the date and place 
of unloading. Every such indorsement shall be signed by the person 
making it, and he shall state on the certificate his official title and 
the name of the carrier for which he signs. 



BEG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 75 

Paragraph 7 . The foreign meat inspection certificate required by 
this section to accompany each consignment containing any meat or 
product shall be delivered by the consignee, or his agent, in the United 
States to the department inspector at the place of inspection, and in- 
spection of the meat or product will not be commenced prior to such 
delivery. 

Section 6. Each importer shall make application for inspection 
to the inspector in charge, if one be stationed at the port where any 
meat or product is to be offered for importation, or, if not, to the 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C, as long as possible in advance of the anticipated 
arrival of each consignment, except in the case of consignments of meat 
and products expressly exempted from inspection by section 11 of 
this regulation. Each application shall state the approximate date 
on which the consignment is due to arrive in the United States, the 
name of the boat or other carrier transporting it, the name of the 
country of the slaughter of the animals from which the meat and 
products were derived, the place of transshipment, if any, the place 
of destination, the quantity and kind of the product, and whether 
fresh, cured, or canned. In case of consignments arriving in the 
United States by water, the application should also state the port 
of first arrival in the United States. 

Section 7. Paragraph 1. Except as provided in section 11 of this 
regulation, all meat and products offered for importation from any 
foreign country shall be inspected by a department inspector before 
the same shall be admitted into the United States. 

Paragraph 2. All meat and products required by this regulation to 
be inspected, which arrive in the United States by water at any port 
where a department inspector is stationed, shall be inspected on the 
wharf at the time of unloading, except that if, upon the application of 
the consignee or his agent, the inspector in charge at such port shall 
so direct, the articles may be inspected at any other place within the 
limits of the port or elsewhere in the United States. 

Paragraph 3. All meat and products required by this regulation 
to be inspected, which arrive in the United States by water at a port 
where no department inspector is stationed and which are consigned to 
any place where a department inspector is stationed, shall be inspected 
at destination. 

Paragraph 4- All meat and products required by this regulation 
to be inspected, which arrive in the United States by water at a port 
where no department inspector is stationed and which are consigned 
to any place where no department inspector is stationed, shall be 
inspected at such place as the chief of bureau, on application of the 
consignee or his agent, or upon the request of the customs officer at 
the port of arrival, shall direct. 



76 REG. 2*7. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

Paragraph 5. All meat and products required by this regulation to 
be inspected, which, arrive in the United States otherwise than by 
water and which are consigned to any place where a department 
inspector is stationed, shall be inspected at destination. 

Paragraph 6. All meat and products required by this regulation 
to be inspected, which arrive in the United States otherwise than by 
water and which are consigned to any place where no department 
inspector is stationed, shall be inspected at such place as the chief of 
bureau, on application of the consignee or his agent, or upon the 
request of the customs officer at the port of arrival, shall direct. 

Paragraph 7 . No meat or product required by this regulation to 
be inspected shall be moved, prior to inspection, from the port of first 
arrival in the United States, or, if arriving by water, from the wharf 
where unloaded, unless the same is conveyed in cars, wagons, or other 
vehicles, sealed, or in packages corded and sealed, in compliance with 
paragraph 8 of this section. 

Paragraph 8. Cars, wagons, vehicles, or packages in which any 
meat or product is conveyed in accordance with this section, prior to 
inspection, from the port of first arrival in the United States, or, if 
arriving by water, from the wharf where unloaded, unless already 
sealed with customs or consular seals in accordance with the customs 
regulations, shall be sealed with special import meat seals of the 
Department of Agriculture. Packages shall be securely corded 
before being offered for sealing. Such special seals shal] be affixed 
by department inspectors, or, if there be no department inspector at 
such port or wharf, then by customs officers. 

Paragraph 9. Except customs officers and department inspectors, 
no person shall affix, break, alter, deface, mutilate, remove, or destroy 
any special import meat seal of the Department of Agriculture. 

Paragraph 10. No meat or product shall be removed from any car, 
wagon, vehicle, or package sealed with a special import meat seal of 
the Department of Agriculture except under the supervision of a 
department inspector or a customs officer. 

Paragraph 11. No meat or product required by this regulation to 
be inspected shall be moved, prior to inspection, from any port, or, if 
arriving by water, from the wharf where first unloaded, to any place 
other than the place designated by, or in accordance with, this section 
as the place where the same shall be inspected. 

Paragraph 12. No meat or product required by this regulation to 
be inspected shall be conveyed, prior to inspection, from any port, or, 
if arriving by water, from the wharf where first unloaded, in any 
manner other than in compliance with this section. 

Paragraph 13. No meat or product required by this regulation to be 
inspected shall be delivered to the consignee or his agent prior to 
inspection, unless the consignee shall furnish a bond, in form pre- 



REG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 77 

scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned that the meat 
or product shall be returned, if demanded, to the collector of the port 
where the same is offered for clearance through the customs. 

Paragraph 14- The consignee or his agent shall furnish such facilities 
and shall provide such assistants for handling and marking meat 
and products offered for importation as department inspectors may 
require. 

Section" 8. Compartments of steamships, sailing vessels, railroad 
cars, and other conveyances transporting any meat or product to the 
United States, and all trucks, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, tools, 
utensils, and all other devices used in moving and handling any meat 
or product offered for importation into the United States, shall be 
maintained in a sanitary condition. 

Section 9. Paragraph 1. Department inspectors shall take, with- 
out cost to the United States, from each consignment offered for 
importation, samples of any meat or product which is subject to 
chemical analysis, except that samples of any meat or product 
offered for importation without inspection under section 11 of this 
regulation shall not be taken unless there is reason for suspecting the 
presence therein of a substance in violation of that section. 

Paragraph 2. If the inspection of samples indicates that any meat 
or product offered for importation into the United States is unsound, 
unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, a 
thorough inspection of the whole consignment from which the 
samples were taken shall be made. 

Paragraph 3. Carcasses and parts of carcasses offered for importa- 
tion from which such tissues as the peritoneum, pleura, body lymph 
glands, or the portal glands of the liver have been removed, shall be 
condemned. 

Paragraph 4- Any meat or product offered for importation which 
is found upon inspection to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, 
or otherwise unfit for human food, or to contain any dye, cnemical, 
preservative or ingredient not permitted by regulation 18, or which 
is of a kind required by paragraph 1 of section 3 of this regulation 
to be refused admission, shall be condemned and marked "U. S. 
inspected and condemned," except that, upon application to the 
inspector, any meat or product which is found to contain preserva- 
tives not permitted by these regulations, but in the preparation or 
packing of which no substance has been used in conflict with the laws 
of the foreign country from which exported, and which is not found to 
be otherwise unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human 
food, may be marked "U. S. refused entry." 

Paragraph 5. Any meat or product, or the container thereof, 
offered for importation from any foreign country and accompanied 
by a foreign certificate of inspection as required by this regulation, 



78 KEG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

which, upon inspection by department inspectors, is not found to be 
unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human 
food, or to contain any dye, chemical, preservative, or ingredient 
not permitted by regulation 18, or to violate this regulation in any 
respect, shall be marked "U. S. inspected and passed by Department 
of Agriculture" and with the official name or abbreviation of the 
station to which the inspector is assigned. All meat and products 
so marked, in compliance with this regulation, shall, so far as the 
Department of Agriculture has jurisdiction over the same, be admitted 
into the United States. 

Paragraph 6. Department inspectors shall report their findings as 
to any meat or product which has been inspected, in accordance with 
this regulation, to the collector at the port where the same is offered 
for clearance through the customs, and shall request the collector to 
refuse admission to all meat and products which are marked either 
"U. S. inspected and condemned" or "\J. S. refused entry," and to 
direct that the same be exported by the consignee within a specified 
time, unless the consignee, within such specified time, shall cause the 
destruction thereof for food purposes under the supervision of a 
department inspector. Such specified time shall be thirty days after 
such notice to customs officers, unless a different time be fixed by the 
Secretary of Agriculture upon application to him. If any such meat 
or product be destroyed for food purposes under the supervision of a 
department inspector, he shall give prompt notice thereof to the 
collector. 

Paragraph 7. Upon the request of the collector, consignees shall, 
at their own expense, immediately return to him any meat or product 
which is marked either "U. S. inspected and condemned" or "U.-S. 
refused entry," or which, in any respect, does not comply with this 
regulation. All such meat and products shall be conveyed in cars, 
wagons, or other vehicles, or in corded packages, sealed with the 
special import meat seal of the Department of Agriculture. 

Paragraph 8. No person shall remove or cause to be removed from 
any place designated by, or in accordance with, these regulations as a 
place of inspection, any meat or product which these regulations 
require to be marked in any way, unless the same has been clearly 
and legibly marked in compliance with these regulations. 

Paragraph 9. The marks required by paragraphs 4 and 5 of this 
section shall be applied by branding to carcasses and parts of carcasses 
offered for importation which are unwrapped or not inclosed in a 
container. Not less than one brand shall be applied to each quarter 
of a beef carcass. 

Section 10. Paragraph 1. Cans, tins, pots, glass, and wrappers of 
paper, wood, or similar material containing any meat or product 
offered for importation shall be marked as required by this section. 



REG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 79 

Paragraph 2. To all true containers there shall be securely affixed 
labels bearing the true name of the product, the name of the manu- 
facturer, and the place where prepared. There shall be on each true 
container a space for the application of the inspection legend and 
other marks required by paragraph 3 of this section. When true 
containers are placed within other containers, the outside container 
shall be marked with the true name of the meat or product. 

Paragraph 3. (a) All outside containers of meat and products 
which have been inspected and passed in compliance with this regu- 
lation shall be marked by the inspector, or under his supervision, 
"U. S. inspected and passed by Department of Agriculture" and with 
the official name or abbreviation of the station to which the inspector 
is assigned. 

(&) All true containers of meat and products which have been 
inspected and passed in compliance with this regulation, and which 
are to be removed from the outside containers and thereafter to be 
transported in interstate or foreign commerce or to an official estab- 
lishment, shall be marked by the inspector, or under his supervision, 
by means of labels or stickers securely affixed thereto, "U. S. inspected 
and passed by Department of Agriculture" and with the official 
name or abbreviation of the station to which the inspector is assigned. 

(c) To each true container of imported meat and products received 
at an official establishment and there removed from an outside con- 
tainer there shall be securely affixed, before the same shall be allowed 
to leave the establishment, a label or sticker bearing the inspection 
legend "U. S. inspected and passed by Department of Agriculture" 
and the establishment number. 

Section 11. Paragraph 1. Any meat or product offered for impor- 
tation in small quantity exclusively for the personal use of the con- 
signee, and not for sale or distribution, which is sound, healthful, 
wholesome, and fit for human food, and contains no dye, chemical, 
preservative, or ingredient not permitted by regulation 18, and which 
is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the food and 
drugs act as amended, may be admitted into the United States with- 
out foreign meat inspection certificates and without inspection and 
marking; but department inspectors may inspect any meat or product 
offered for importation under this paragraph if there is reason for 
suspecting that it is unsound, unhealthf ul, unwholesome, or otherwise 
unfit for food, or contains any dye, chemical, preservative, or ingre- 
dient not permitted by regulation 18, or is adulterated or mis- 
branded within the meaning of the food and drugs act as amended. 

Paragraph 2. No meat or product offered for importation under 
paragraph 1 of this section shall be admitted into the United States 
if it is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for 
human food, or if it contains any dye, chemical, preservative, or 



80 EEG. 21. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 

ingredient not permitted by regulation 18, or if it is adulterated or 
misbranded within the meaning of the food and drugs act as amended. 
Paragraph 3. No carrier or other person shall transport or receive 
for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia to or through any other State, Territory, or the District 
of Columbia, or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United 
States, any meat or product exempted from inspection and admitted 
into the United States in compliance with this section unless the 
shipper shall make and deliver to the carrier a certificate in duplicate 
in the following form: 1 

Date 191 . 

Name of carrier 

Shipper 

Point of shipment : 

Consignee 

Destination 

I hereby certify that the following described uninspected meat or meat food 
products, offered for transportation in interstate commerce, were imported into the 
United States exclusively for the personal use of the consignee, and not for sale or 
distribution, and are exempted from inspection by the regulations of the United 
States Secretary of Agriculture governing meat inspection. 

Kind of product. Amount and weight. 
- , flJ a 



(Signature of shipper.) 
(Address of shipper.) 

The signature of the shipper or of his agent shall be written in 
full. This certificate shall be separate and apart from any waybill, 
bill of lading, or other form ordinarily used in the shipment of meat. 
The duplicate certificate shall be forwarded immediately by the 
initial carrier to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C. All waybills, transfer bills, running slips, or con- 
ductor's cards accompanying an interstate shipment of any meat or 
product transported in compliance with this section shall have 
embodied therein, stamped thereon, or attached thereto a signed 
statement which shall be evidence to connecting carriers that the 
shipper's certificate required by this section is on file with the initial 
carrier; and no connecting carrier shall receive for transportation 
or transport any interstate shipment of any meat or product under 
this section unless the waybill, transfer bill, running slip, or con- 

1 For convenience in filing it is requested that these certificates be made on paper 5J by 8 inches in size. 



BEG. 27. IMPORTED MEATS AND PRODUCTS. 81 

ductor's card accompanying the same includes the aforesaid signed 
statement, in the following form : 

(Name of transportation company.) 
Imported for trie personal use of consignee and exempt from inspection, as evi- 
denced by shipper's certificate on file with initial carrier. 

(Signed) Agent. 

The signature of the agent shall be written in full. 

Section 12. Paragraph 1. All imported meat and products, after 
admission into the United States in compliance with this regula- 
tion, shall be deemed and treated, and, except as provided in para- 
graph 3 of section 11 of this regulation, shall be handled and trans- 
ported, as domestic meat and products, and shall be subject to all 
these regulations and to the provisions, prohibitions, and penalties 
of the meat inspection act. 

Paragraph 2. Imported meat and products inspected, passed, 
and marked in accordance with this regulation may, subject to the 
provisions of paragraph 1 of section 3 of regulation 18, be taken into 
official establishments and be mixed with or added to meat and 
products in such establishments which have been inspected and 
passed therein. 

Paragraph 3. Imported meat and products which have been 
inspected, passed, and marked under this regulation may be trans- 
ported from one State or Territory or the District of Column to 
or through another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or 
to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to a 
foreign country, only upon compliance with regulation 25. 
49608°— 14 6 



LAWS UNDER WHICH THE FOREGOING REGULATIONS 

ARE MADE. 



THE MEAT INSPECTION ACT. 

Extract from an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agri- 
culture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven," approved June 30, 1906 
(34 Stat. 674), and from an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of 
Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight," approved March 4. 
1907 (34 Stat. 1260). ' 

[1] That [hereafter,] 1 for the purpose of preventing the use in interstate or foreign 
commerce, as hereinafter provided, of meat and meat food products which are unsound, 
unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, at his discretion, may cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that 
purpose, an examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats before 
they shall be allowed to enter into any slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, render- 
ing, or similar establishment, in which they are to be slaughtered and the meat and meat 
food products thereof are to be used in interstate or foreign commerce; and all cattle, 
swine, sheep, and goats found on such inspection to show symptoms of disease shall 
be set apart and slaughtered separately from all other cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, 
and when so slaughtered the carcasses of said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats shall be 
subject to a careful examination and inspection, all as provided by the rules and 
regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture as herein provided for. 

[2] That for the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, 
a post-mortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all 
cattle, sheep, swine, and goats to be prepared for human consumption at any slaughter- 
ing, meat-canning^ salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in any State, 
Territory, or the District of Columbia for transportation or sale as articles of interstate 
or foreign commerce; and the carcasses and parts thereof of all such animals found, to 
be sound, healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food shall be marked, stamped, 
tagged, or labeled as "Inspected and Passed;" and said inspectors shall label, mark, 
stamp, or tag as "Inspected and Condemned," all carcasses and parts thereof of 
animals found to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human 
food; and all carcasses and parts thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be 
destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, 
and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any such establishment 
which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof, and said inspec- 
tors, after said first inspection shall, when they deem it necessary, reinspect said 
carcasses or parts thereof to determine whether since the first inspection the same 
have become unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for human 
food, and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination and inspection 
subsequent to the first examination and inspection, be found to be unsound, unhealth- 
ful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall be destroyed for food 
purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Secretary 
of Agriculture may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy 
any such condemned carcass or part thereof. 

[3] Theforegoing provisions shall apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, 
sheep, swine, and goats, or the meat or meat products thereof which may be brought 
into any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar estab- 
lishment, and such examination and inspection shall be had before the said carcasses 
or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are 
to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and the foregoing provisions 
shall also apply to all such products which, after having been issued from any slaugh- 
tering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, shall 
be returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is 
maintained. 

i The word "hereafter" is used in the act of 1907 but not in that of 1906. Otherwise the extract here 
given is identical in both laws. 

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MEAT INSPECTION ACT. 83 

[4] That for the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspec- 
tion of all meat food products prepared for interstate or foreign commerce in any 
slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, an 1 
for the purposes of any examination and inspection said inspectors shall have access at 
all times, by day or night, whether the establishment be operated or not, to every 
part of said establishment; and said inspectors shall mark, stamp, tag, or label as 
" Inspected and Passed " all such products found to be sound, healthful, and whole- 
some, and which contain no dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which 
render such meat or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit 
for human food; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as " Inspected and 
Condemned " all such products found unsound, unhealthful, and unwholesome, or 
which contain dyes, chemicals, preservatives, or ingredients which render such meat 
or meat food products unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food, 
and all such condemned meat food products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as 
hereinbefore provided, and the Secretary of Agriculture may remove inspectors from 
any establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned meat food products: 
Provided, That, subject to the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
the provisions hereof in regard to preservatives shall not apply to meat food products 
for export to any foreign country and which are prepared or packed according to the 
specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser, when no substance is used in the 
preparation or packing thereof in conflict with the laws of the foreign country to 
which said article is to be exported; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered 
for sale for domestic use or consumption, then this proviso shall not exempt said 
article from the operation of all the other provisions of this act. 

[5] That when any meat or meat food product prepared for interstate or foreign com- 
merce which has been inspected as hereinbefore provided and marked " Inspected 
and Passed" shall be placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other recep- 
tacle or covering in any establishment where inspection under the provisions of this 
act is maintained, the person, firm, or corporation preparing said product shall cause 
a label to be attached to said can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or covering, 
under the supervision of an inspector, which label shall state that the contents thereof 
have been "Inspected and Passed" under the provisions of this act; and no inspec- 
tion and examination of meat or meat food products deposited or inclosed in cans, 
tins, pots, canvas, or other receptacle or covering in any establishment where inspec- 
tion under the provisions of this act is maintained shall be deemed to be complete 
until such meat or meat food products have been sealed or inclosed in said can, tin, 
pot, canvas, or other receptacle or covering under the supervision of an inspector, 
and no such meat or meat food products shall be sold or offered for sale by any person, 
firm, or corporation in interstate or foreign commerce under any false or deceptive 
name; but established trade name or names which are usual to such products and 
which are not false and deceptive and which shall be approved by the Secretary of 
Agriculture are permitted. 

[6] The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be made, by experts in sanitation or 
by other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat-canning, salt- 
ing, packing, rendering, or similar establishments in which cattle, sheep, swine, and 
goats are slaughtered and the meat and meat food products thereof are prepared for 
interstate or foreign commerce as may be necessary to inform himself concerning the 
sanitary conditions of the same, and to prescribe the rules and regulations of sanita- 
tion under which such establishments shall be maintained; and where the sanitary 
conditions of any such establishment are such that the meat or meat food products 
are rendered unclean, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for 
human food, he shall refuse to allow said meat or meat food products to be» labeled, 
marked, stamped, or tagged as "Inspected and Passed." 

[7] That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause an examination and inspection of 
all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, and the food products thereof, slaughtered and pre- 
pared in the establishments hereinbefore described for the purposes of interstate or 
foreign commerce to be made during the nighttime as well as during the daytime 
when the slaughtering of said cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, or the preparation of 
said food products is conducted during the nighttime. 

[8] That on and after October first, nineteen hundred and six, no person, firm, or 
corporation shall transport or offer for transportation, and no earner of interstate or 
foreign commerce shall transport or receive for transportation from one State or Ter- 
ritory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to any for- 
eign country, any carcasses or parts thereof, meat, or meat food products thereof 
which have not been inspected, examined, and marked as "Inspected and Passed," 



84 MEAT INSPECTION" ACT. 

in accordance with the terms of this act and with the rules and regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That all meat and meat food products 
on hand on October first, nineteen hundred and six, at establishments where inspec- 
tion has not been maintained, or which have been inspected under existing law, 
shall be examined and labeled under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall prescribe, and then shall be allowed to be sold in interstate or foreign 
commerce. 

[9] That no person, firm, or corporation, or officer, agent, or employee thereof, shaty 
forge, counterfeit, simulate, or falsely represent, or shall without proper authority 
use, fail to use, or detach, or shall knowingly or wrongfully alter, deface, or destroy, 
or fail to deface or destroy, any of the marks, stamps, tags, labels, or other identifi- 
cation devices provided for in this act, or in and as directed by the rules and regu- 
lations prescribed hereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture, on any carcasses, parts 
of carcasses, or the food product, or containers thereof, subject to the provisions of 
this act, or any certificate in relation thereto, authorized or required by this act or 
by the said rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture. 

[10] That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be made a careful inspection 
of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats intended and offered for export to foreign coun- 
tries at such times and places, and in such manner as he may deem proper, to ascertain 
whether such cattle, sheep, swine, and goats are free from disease. 

[11] And for this purpose he may appoint inspectors who shall be authorized to give 
an official certificate clearly stating the condition in which such cattle, sheep, swine, 
and goats are found. 

[12] And no clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board cattle, sheep, 
swine, or goats for export to a foreign country until the owner or shipper of such cattle, 
sheep, swine, or goats has a certificate from the inspector herein authorized to be 
appointed, stating that the said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are sound and healthy, 
or unless the Secretary of Agriculture shall have waived the requirement of such 
certificate for export to the particular country to which such cattle, sheep, swine, or 
goats are to be exported. 

_ [13] That the Secretary of Agriculture shall also cause to be made a careful inspec- 
tion of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, the meat of 
which, fresh, salted, canned, corned, packed, cured, or otherwise prepared, is intended 
and offered for export to any foreign country, at such times and places and in such 
manner as he may deem proper. 

[14] And for this purpose he may appoint inspectors who shall be authorized to give 
an official certificate stating the condition in which said cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, 
and the meat thereof, are found. 

[15] And no clearance shall be given to any vessel having on board any fresh, salted, 
canned, corned, or packed beef, mutton, pork, or goat meat, being the meat of ani- 
mals killed after the passage of this act, or except as hereinbefore provided for export 
to and sale in a foreign country from any port in the United States, until the owner 
or shipper thereof shall obtain from an inspector appointed under the provisions of 
this act a certificate that the said cattle, sheep, swine, and goats were sound and 
healthy at the time of inspection, and that their meat is sound and wholesome, unless 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall have waived the requirements of such certificate 
for the country to which said cattle, sheep, swine, and goats or meats are to be ex- 
ported. 

[16] That the inspectors provided for herein shall be authorized to give official 
certificates of the sound and wholesome condition of the cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, 
their carcasses and products as herein described, and one copy of every certificate 
granted under the provisions of this act shall be filed in the Department of Agricul- 
ture, another copy shall be delivered to the owner or shipper, and when the cattle, 
sheep, swine, and goats or their carcasses and products are sent abroad, a third copy 
shall be delivered to the chief officer of the vessel on which the shipment shall be 
made. 

[17] That no person, firm, or corporation engaged in the interstate commerce of meat 
or meat food products shall transport or offer for transportation, sell or offer to sell any 
such meat or meat food products in any State or Territory or in the District of Columbia 
or any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, other than in the State or 
Territory or in the District of Columbia or any place under the Jurisdiction of the 
United States in which the slaughtering, packing, canning, rendering, or other similar 
establishment owned, leased, operated by said firm, person, or corporation is located 
unless and until said person, firm, or corporation shall have complied with all of the 
provisions of this act. 

[18] That any person, firm, or corporation, or any officer or agent of any such person, 
firm, or corporation, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed 



MEAT INSPECTION ACT. 85 

guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished on conviction thereof by a fine of not 
exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment for a period not more than two years, 
or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 

[19] That the Secretary of Agriculture shall appoint from time to time inspectors to 
make examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, the inspection 
of which is hereby provided for, and of all carcasses and parts thereof, and of all meats 
and meat food products thereof, and of the sanitary conditions of all establishments 
in which such meat and meat food products hereinbefore described are prepared; 
and said inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag, or label any carcass or any part 
thereof, or meat food product therefrom, prepared in any establishment hereinbefore 
mentioned, until the same shall have actually been inspected and found to be sound, 
healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, and to contain no dyes, chemicals, 
preservatives, or ingredients which render such meat food product unsound, unhealth- 
ful, unwholesome, or unfit for human food; and to have been prepared under proper 
sanitary conditions, hereinbefore provided for; and shall perform such other duties 
as ai* provided by this act and by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said 
Secretary of Agriculture; and said Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time, 
make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the efficient execution of the 
provisions of this act, and all inspections and examinations made under this act shall 
be such and made in such manner as described in the rules and regulations prescribed 
by said Secretary of Agriculture not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 

[20] That any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, 
firm, or corporation, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any inspec- 
tor, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or any other officer or employee of the United 
States authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act or by the rules 
and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture any money or other thing of value, 
with intent to influence said inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other 
officer or employee of the United States in the discharge of any duty herein provided 
for, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by a fine not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and 
by imprisonment not less than one year nor more than three years; and any inspector, 
deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other officer or employee of the United States 
authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act who shall accept any 
money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, firm, or corporation, or officers, 
agents, or employees thereof, given with intent to influence his official action, or who 
shall receive or accept from any person, firm, or corporation engaged in interstate or 
foreign commerce any gift, money, or other thing of value given with any purpose or 
intent whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be summarily discharged from office and shall be punished by a fine not less 
than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and by imprisonment 
not less than one year nor more than three years. 

[21] That the provisions of this act requiring inspection to be made by the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall not apply to animals slaughtered by any farmer on the farm and 
sold and transported as interstate or foreign commerce, nor to retail butchers and retail 
dealers in meat and meat food products, supplying their customers: Provided, That 
if any person shall sell or offer for sale or transportation for interstate or foreign com- 
merce any meat or meat food products which are diseased, unsound, unheal thful, 
unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing that such meat food prod- 
ucts are intended for human consumption, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars 
or by imprisonment for a period of not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment: Provided also, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to main- 
tain the inspection in this act provided for at any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, 
packing, rendering, or similar establishment notwithstanding this exception, and 
that the persons operating the same may be retail butchers and retail dealers or 
farmers; and where the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish such inspection then 
the provisions of this act shall apply notwithstanding this exception. 

THE IMPORTED MEAT ACT. 

Extract from an act of Congress entitled "An act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the 
Government, and for other purposes," approved October 3, 1913 (38 Stat. 114, 152, 159). 

That on and after the day following the passage of this act, except as otherwise 
specifically provided for in this act, the articles mentioned in the following paragraphs 
shall when imported into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the 
Philippine Islands and the Islands of Guam and Tutuila) be exempt from duty: 



86 IMPORTED MEAT ACT. 

545. Meats: Fresh beef, veal, mutton, lamb, and pork; bacon and hams; meats of 
all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in this section: Provided, 
however, That none of the foregoing meats shall be admitted into the United States 
unless the same is healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food and contains no dye, 
chemical, preservative, or ingredient which renders the same unhealthful, unwhole- 
some, or unfit for human food, and unless the same also complies with the rules and 
regulations made by the Secretary of Agriculture, and that, after entry into the United 
States in compliance with said rules and regulations, said imported meats shall be 
deemed and treated as domestic meats within the meaning of and shall be subject to 
the provisions of the act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth 
Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seventy-four), commonly called the meat 
inspection amendment, and the act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six 
(Thirty -fourth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and sixty-eight), commonly 
called the food and drugs act, and that the Secretary of Agriculture be and hereby is 
authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, 
and that in such rules and regulations the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe the 
terms and conditions for the destruction for food purposes of all such meats offered for 
entry and refused admission into the United States unless the same be exported by the 
consignee within the time fixed therefor in such rules and regulations. 



INDEX. 



Page. 

Abbreviations of inspection marks, authorization of 36 

Abrasions on tongues and Lips at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Abscess in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Access to official establishments by bureau employees 12 

Act- 
food and drugs, compliance with 69 

food and drugs, definition of 5 

imported meat, definition of 5 

imported meat, text of 85 

meat inspection, definition of 5 

meat inspection, text of 82-85 

Actinomycosis found at post-mortem, disposal of carcasses 28 

Added substances allowed in meat food products 50 

Advertisements, etc., containing inspection legend, use of 37 

Anemia in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal - 33 

Ante-mortem inspection — 

diseases and conditions requiring condemnation 20 

disposal of condemned animals 22 

facilities to be provided by establishments 14 

places where conducted 19 

"suspects" — marking, control, separate slaughter, etc 20, 21, 22, 27 

temperature of animals 20, 21 

tuberculin reactors 21 

Anthrax found at post-mortem, disposal of carcass, etc 25 

Appeals from inspectors' decisions, procedure 55 

Application for inspection by importers, method 75 

Applications for inspection or exemption by packers, retail dealers, etc 9-11 

Badge, official, entitles admittance to establishments 12 

Benzoate of soda in products, requirement in trade labels 47, 50 

Bicarbonate of soda, use in preparation of fats 51 

Blackleg in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Bladder worms, gid, in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Bladders from carcasses infested with tapeworm cysts, disposal 31 

Blood used for food purposes, requirements 22, 53 

Branding — 

carcasses, parts, and products 36-41 

imported carcasses and parts, method 78 

Brands for marking meat and products, use, etc 39 

Bribery of bureau employees 56 

Bruised carcasses at post-mortem, procedure 24 

Butchers, retail, exemption from inspection^ requirements 9-11 

Canned meat and products, marking, sterilization, etc 52 

Canning of meat passed for sterilization, requirements 36 

Cans defective after sterilization, repairing of 52 

Carcasses — 

dressed with hides left on, requirement 24 

of animals slaughtered without inspection, procedure 33, 34 

or parts contaminated during post-mortem, disposal 29 

or parts, inflation with air not permitted 24 

retained at post-mortem, procedure 23 

Carcinoma in carcasses or parts at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Carriers — 

certificates, filing and keeping of 68 

connecting, statement required in movement of alleged unsound meat 65 

connecting, statement required in movement of unsound denatured meat. . 66 

87 



88 INDEX. 

Carriers — Continued. Page. 

connecting, statement required in movement of inedible fats, etc 67-68 

connecting, statement required in interstate movement of meat, etc 63-64 

connecting, statement required in movement of meat imported for personal 

use ... -. 81 

foreign, loading imported meat, statements required 71, 74 

foreign, loading meat for import, indorsement of certificates 74 

report of reloading in cases of emergency 68 

Cars — 

etc., conveying imported meat prior to inspection, sealing of 76 

in wreck, etc. , breaking of seals and reloading products 68 

sanitary requirements 18 

ships, etc. , transporting import meat, sanitation of 77 

tank, containing inedible product, marking of 41 

tank, labeling, sealing, etc 41 

tank, sanitary requirements 18 

Caseous lymphadenitis at post-mortem, disposal 30 

Casings — 

animal, kind permitted as containers 52 

colored, marking of J 39 

containing meat products, marking of 38 

hog and sheep, fermenting and sliming of 53 

sausage, use of color 50 

Catarrh, malignant epizootic, in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Caul fat, transfer not permitted 24 

Cereal — 

and water in sausage, marking of 38 

and water in sausage, requirement in trade labels 45 

in meat food products, requirement in trade labels , 45 

in sausage, amount permitted 50 

Certificate — 

for farm meat in interstate trade 63 

for foreign meat reconsigned to United States 72 

for imported meat from country of slaughter 70-71 

for imported meat from other than country of slaughter 73 

for interstate movement of meat or product imported for personal use 80 

for interstate movement of uninspected meat by retail dealers 62 

for interstate shipment of inspected and passed meat and products 60 

for movement of alleged unsound meat 64-65 

for movement of inedible fat, etc 67 

for movement of meat and products between official establishments 61 

for movement of unsound denatured meat or product 66 

Certificates — 

and stamps, export 56-58 

and stamps, export, for inedible products 58 

and stamps, preservative, for export, requirements 58 

counterfeiting, defacing, etc., of 56 

delivered to carriers, filing and keeping of 68 

exemption, for export meat and products 58 

for combined interstate and foreign movement 59 

foreign, of meat inspection, signatory and other requirements 74 

for interstate transportation of meat and products 59, 60 

of exemption, requirements, restrictions, etc 10 

of imported meat, indorsement by foreign carriers 74 

of inspection, foreign, delivery to inspector 75 

Chemicals — 

added to meat food products, requirements 50 

prohibited, not allowed to enter establishments 53 

Cloth- 
casings, sausage, use of color in , 50 

wrappers, inspection mark on 40 

wrappers on export products, stamping of 57 

Clothing of employees, sanitary requirements 18 

Ccenurus cerebralis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Color — 

added to lard and other fats, requirements in labeling 47 

on casings, marking of 39 

in manufactured meat products, when permitted 50 

matter in foreign products, conditions of entry 69 



INDEX. 89 

Compound — Page. 

etc. , added water prohibited 51 

requirements in labeling 46 

use of color in 50 

Condemnation- — 

of alleged unsound meat or product, procedure 65 

of animals at ante-mortem inspection 20-21 

of carcasses and parts at post-mortem inspection 23 

of meat and products, appeals 55 

of meat, etc., under food and drugs act 69 

Condemned — 

animals at ante-mortem inspection, disposal of 22 

carcasses and parts at post-mortem, disposal of 23 

meat, kinds allowed for poultry feed 33 

meat or product, equipment for disposal of 15 

meat or product, facilities for handling 14 

meat or product, imported, disposal of 78 

meat or product, method of tanking or denaturing : 35-36 

meat or product, room for holding 15 

Connecting carriers. See Carriers. 

Contagious disease affecting employees, requirements 19- 

Containers — 

bearing inspection legend, filling, etc 37, 38 

bearing trade labels, filling, etc 41 

cloth, inspection mark on 40 

defacing, destroying, altering, etc 56 

in package form required to show weight, etc., of contents 47 

made from animal casings, requirements 52 

of export products, stamping of 57 

of import products, labeling of 78-79 

previously used, requirements in labeling and refilling 47 

second-hand, requirements before using 18 

tin, number of establishment required thereon 42 

use of stickers or seals on 42 

various, definitions of terms 7 

with false statement, labels forbidden 43 

Contamination — 

of carcasses during post-mortem, disposal 29 

of meat, etc., by falling on floor, procedure 48 

Conveyers, underground, for products, requirements 34 

Cooked meat and products, requirement 52 

Cooperation with local and State authorities 55 

Counterfeiting inspection marks, labels, etc 56 

Cripples at ante-mortem inspection, disposal of 21 

Cuspidors in official establishments, requirements 17 

Cuts, meat, in market inspection, marking of 54 

Cysticercus in cattle and sheep at post-mortem, disposal 31-32 

Cysticercus cellulosas in hogs at post-mortem, disposal 32 

Cysts, tapeworm and hydatid, at post-mortem, disposal 31-33 

Dead animals brought into official establishments, requirements 35 

Dead or dying animals found on official premises, disposal of 21 

Declaration — 

for foreign meat reconsigned to United States, text of 72 

for grease establishments, filing by proprietor 10 

for inedible products, filing by manufacturer 11 

Defacing inspection marks, labels, containers, etc 56 

Defective cans, repairing after sterilization 52 

Definitions of terms, phrases, etc. , used in regulations 5-8 

Degeneration, slimy, of fat in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Demodex folliculorum in hogs at post-mortem, disposal 31 

Denaturing condemned meat, method 36 

Diamond skin disease. See Urticaria. 

Disease, contagious, affecting employees, requirements 19 

Disinfection — 

facilities to be provided 14 

following post-mortem on diseased carcasses 29 

following slaughter of animal affected with anthrax 25 



90 INDEX. 

Disinfection — Continued. Page. 

of hands and implements 14, 15, 18 

of hides and skins of diseased carcasses before removal 24 

Distributers of products, names on trade labels and containers 43 

Diversion of shipments in cases of emergency, procedure 68 

Dock or place at official establishments for receipt of returned products 49 

Dogs in official establishments, requirements '. . 16 

Domestic meat label, use and requirements 39, 40 

Downers at ante-mortem inspection, slaughter and disposal of 21 

Drainage of establishments and premises, requirements 14, 16, 18 

Dyes in meat food products, requirements 39, 47, 50, 53 

Echinococcus in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Edible offal in meat products, labeling of. . 46 

Emaciation in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Emergency — 

movement of inspected products, diversion, etc 68 

slaughter, requirements 21, 33 

Employees — 

bureau, bribery of 56 

bureau, daily reports of inspection work 55 

bureau, eligibility for employment at establishments 13 

bureau, organization and classes 8-9 

bureau, right of access to official establishments . 12 

bureau, soliciting employment at establishments, forbidden 13 

bureau , to report unsound inspec ted products found outside of establishmen ts 56 

clothing, sanitary requirements 18 

diseased, forbidden to handle meat, etc 19 

handling diseased carcasses, requirements 18 

Enteritis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Equipment — 

for rendering and conveying edible and inedible products, requirements.. 34 

of tanks for condemned products. 15 

or utensils, insanitary, condemnation of _ 19 

required at establishments for conducting inspection 13-15 

sanitary requirements 16-18 

Erythema in hogs at post-mortem, disposal 31 

Establishments — ■ 

access to, by bureau employees _ - 12 

manufacturing grease and inedible products, filing of declaration 10, 11 

movement of meat, etc., between 61 

numbers on trade labels and containers 41, 42 

requiring inspection during unusual hours, procedure 13 

sanitary requirements in 15-19 

small, hours of operation designated by inspector 13 

subject to inspection 8 

subsidiary, separate inspection_ necessary 11 

to provide facilities for inspection 13-15 

Exemption — 

certificates for export meat and products 58 

certificates, requirements, restrictions, etc 10 

from inspection, application for, requirements 9-11 

of farmers, retail dealers, and retail butchers from inspection 10 

Export — 

certificates, issuance, requirements, etc 57 

fats, uninspected, requirement 58 

meat and products, exemption certificates for 58 

meat and products, marking of 40 

meat and products to Europe, etc., certificates necessary 57 

products transferred from tank cars, labeling, etc 41 

products, use of preservatives, etc 51 

stamps and certificates - 56-58 

Facilities to be provided for conducting inspection 13, 15 

False names, statements, pictures, etc., on trade labels prohibited 43 

Farm — . 

meat offered for interstate trade, certificate required M 

slaughtered animals in official establishments, procedure 34 

slaughter, exempt from inspection 10 



INDEX. 91 

Fat-— - Page. 

imported, conditions of entry 70 

inedible, brought into official establishments 35 

inedible, marking of 41 

inedible, movement of, certificate for 67 

mixtures, labeling of, requirements 46 

of carcasses infested with tapeworm cysts, disposal 31 

on carcasses, transfer not permitted 24 

preparation of, use of bicarbonate of soda and fuller's earth 51 

prepared, use of color in 50 

previously inspected, conditions of entry into official establishments 49 

rendered, condemned .on reinspection, tanking of 36 

uninspected, offered for export, requirement 58 

Ferries as interstate carriers, status 59 

Filing of transportation carriers' certificates 68 

Final inspection, facilities for 14 

Flies in establishments, precaution required 16 

Flukes, liver, in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Food and drugs act, compliance with 69 

Foreign — 

inspection of imported meat, etc., requirements 69 

language on trade labels, requirements 43 

Frankfort style sausage, placing inspection mark on 38 

Fresh, use of term on trade labels. 44 

Fuller's earth, use in preparation of fats 51 

Gastritis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Gid bladder worms in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Grease — 

condemned on reinspection, tanking of 36 

establishments, filing of declaration, etc 10 

imported, conditions of entry 70 

inedible, marking of 41 

Ham, use of term on trade labels 44 

Handling — ■ 

diseased products, facilities for 14 

of diseased carcasses by employees of establishments, requirements 18 

Heads used in food products, cleansing of 53 

Hemorrhagic septicemia in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Hides — 

left on carcasses to be dressed, requirement 24 

of diseased animals, conditions of removal '. 24 

Hog carcasses found diseased before evisceration, procedure , 24 

Hog cholera — 

or swine plague at ante-mortem, disposal of hogs affected 20 

or swine plague found at post-mortem, disposal of carcasses 27-28 

Hogs — 

affected with hog cholera, disposal 20, 27, 28 

exposed to hog cholera, separate slaughter of 21 

scalded alive or suffocated, disposal at post-mortem 33 

showing high temperature at ante-mortem, disposal of 20 

Holidays, legal, inspection on. 13 

Hydatid cysts in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Hyperemia in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Hypoderma lineata in animal casings, treatment 53 

Ice or water added to sausage, quantity allowed 50 

Ictero-hematuria, parasitic, in sheep at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Icterus in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30 

Immature — 

animals at ante-mortem inspection, disposal 20 

carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Import — 

carcasses and parts, requirements for inspection 77 

meat and products, certificates of inspection 70-75 

meat and products, conditions of entry when reconsigned 71-72 

meat and products, disposal after passing inspection 81 

meat and products, inspected, marking of 78-79 

meat and products, interstate transportation of 59 



92 INDEX. 

Import — Continued. Page. 

meat and products, kinds forbidden 69 

meat and products, removal forbidden until marked 78 

meat and products, removal from sealed cars 76 

meat and products, requirements governing place of inspection 75, 76 

meat and products, requirements of foreign inspection 69 

meat and products, sanitation of skips, cars, etc., used in conveyance 77 

meat, inspection of, facilities required from importers 77 

meat law, text of 85 

meat not originally consigned to tke United States, conditions of entry . . . 71-72 

meat or product, condemned, disposal of 78 

meat or product, delivery before inspection, conditions 76 

meat or product for personal use of consignee, conditions of entry 79-81 

meat or product, metkod of applying for inspection 75 

meat or product, movement prior to inspection 75 

meat or product, taking samples for analysis 77 

meat seals, requirements 76 

products, labeling of containers 78-79 

Importers — 

applying for inspection, requirements 75 

required to furnish facilities at inspection 77 

Inauguration of inspection, requirements 12 

Inedible — 

fat, etc., movement 67-68 

fat, foreign, conditions of entry 70 

fats brought into official establishments, requirements 35 

products, filing of declaration by manufacturer 11 

products for export, stamps, etc . , for 58 

products, marking of 41 

products, separate rooms for 16 

products, trucks for, requirements 17 

Infiltration, serous, in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Inflammation in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Inflation of carcasses with air not permitted 24 

Ingredients — 

in meat food products, definitions 45 

of products, required with proofs of trade labels 42 

used in manufacture of products, sanitary requirements 50 

Injured animals, inspection, slaughter, etc 21, 33 

Insanitary equipment or utensils, condemnation of 19 

Inspection — 

act, etc., reporting violations ■ 12 

application for, by packers, dealers, etc., requirements 9-11 

at small establishments, hours of operation 13 

during unusual hours, notice by establishment 13 

facilities to be provided by establishments 13-15 

force, organization and duties 8-9 

foreign, of imported meat, etc., requirements 69 

legend. See Legend. 

market, provisions 54 

marks, abbreviations, authorization of 36 

marks, labels, etc., counterfeiting or defacing of 56 

of alleged unsound meat, procedure 65 

of imports 69-81 

on legal holidays 13 

Inspectors, bureau, organization, and duties 8-9 

Interstate transportation or movement. See Transportation. 

Intestines — 

not permitted as ingredients of meat products 53 

of carcasses infested with tapeworm cysts, disposal 31 

Jobbers and wholesalers, interstate shipments by 59, 60 

Kidneys used in food products, requirements 53 

Label, domestic meat, use and requirements 39, 40 

Labeling — 

and refilling of previously used containers 47 

and sealing of tank cars, requirements 41 

of canned products made from meat passed for sterilization 36 



INDEX. 93 

Labeling— Continued. Pa S e - 

of containers of imported products 78-79 

of foreign inedible fat, requirements 70 

of mixtures containing inspected meat or products 54 

of sausage, examples 44, 45 

Labels — 

marks, etc., counterfeiting or defacing of 56 

trade, affixing to containers 41 

trade, containing names of distributers, etc., requirements 43 

trade, description, requirements, etc 41-48 

trade, false names, statements, pictures, etc., forbidden 43 

trade, for fat mixtures, requirements 46 

trade, for lard, etc., with color added, requirements 47 

trade, for pork sausage, requirement 45 

trade, for products with, benzoate of soda, requirements 47, 50 

trade, for products with water and cereal, requirements 45 

trade, for products with more than one ingredient, requirements 45 

trade, for sausage with water and cereal, requirements 45 

trade, in foreign language, requirements 43 

trade, kinds permitted 42 

trade, of lard having added substances, requirements 46 

trade, of meat products containing edible offal, requirements 46 

trade, on containers, use without domestic meat label 40 

trade, on previously used containers, requirements 47 

trade, statements allowed on 41 

trade, submission for approval 42 

trade, use of stickers or seals with 42 

trade, with descriptive terms, requirements 44 

Laboratory — 

inspection, exemption of products from transportation requirements 68 

inspection of imports, samples for 77 

Lard — 

and compounds and substitutes, added water prohibited 51 

and compounds, use of color in 50 

and tallow, method of rendering condemned carcasses and parts into 36 

colored, labeling of 47 

compound, requirements in trade labels 46 

containing lard stearin, etc., requirements in labeling 46 

labels, use of term "leaf" on 45 

"pure," preparation of 53 

Law, meat inspection, text of 82-85 

Law relating to imported meat, text of 85 

Lay inspectors, duties, etc 9 

Leaf lard — 

preparation of, requirement 53 

use of term on trade labels 45 

Legal holidays, inspection on 13 

Legend, inspection — 

act of June 30, 1906, three-year provision 8 

affixing on meat and products 37 

definition 6 

embodied in stickers or seals 42 

embossed on metal containers 42 

making copies forbidden 37 

on advertisements, etc. , use of 37 

on brands, etc. , use of 39 

on detachable device forbidden 42 

on mixtures containing inspected meat, requirements 54 

on primal parts after processing 38 

on sausage and other meat in casings, marking 38 

on trade labels 41 

Lime, use in cleansing of tripe 51 

Lip-and-leg ulceration. See Necrobacillosis. 

Liver flukes in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Local meat inspection, cooperation with 55 

Lockers for keeping inspection brands, requirements 15 

Lumpy jaw. See Actinomycosis. 

Lymphadenitis, caseous, in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30 



94 INDEX. 



Malignant epizootic catarrh in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Mammitis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal ". 29 

Mange in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30 

Market inspection, sanitary and other requirements 16, 54 

Marking — 

branding, and identifying meat and products 36^11 

canned meat and products 52 

cloth containers 40 

imported meat or product, procedure 78-79 

inedible fats 41 

meat or product with domestic meat label 39-40 

primal parts after processing 38 

sausage and other meat in casings. 38 

unmarked cuts in market inspection 54 

Marks — 

labels, etc., counterfeiting or defacing of 56 

stencils, etc., on previously used containers, requirements 47 

Meat — 

and products exported to Europe, etc., certificates necessary 57 

and products for laboratory inspection, exemption from transportation 

requirements 68 

and products, foreign, kinds forbidden to enter 69 

and products, reinspection and preparation of 48-54, 56 

condemned, kinds allowed for poultry feed 33 

inspected, becoming unsound, permit for movement 64 

of tuberculous animals, disposal of 26 

passed for sterilization, canning of, requirements 36 

trimmings, foreign, conditions of entry 70 

Melanosis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Metritis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Milk fever at ante-mortem inspection, disposal of animals affected 20 

Mixtures containing inspected meat, requirements 54 

Movement. See Transportation. 

Multiceps multiceps in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Municipal meat inspection, cooperation with._ 55 

Necrobacillosis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30 

Nephritis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal _. 29 

Nuisance in official establishments or premises forbidden 19 

Odors — 

in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30 

in official establishments, requirements 19 

CEsophagostomum in animal casings, treatment 53 

Offal, edible, in meat products, labeling of 46 

Oleo oil, uninspected, offered for export, requirement 58 

Oleomargarin manufacture, fittings, etc., sanitary requirements 50 

Packing of export products containing preservatives 51 

Parasites in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 32 

Parasitic ictero-hematuria in sheep at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Parcel post as interstate carrier 59 

Parturition. See Pregnancy. 

Paunches and stomachs used in food products, cleansing of 53 

Pericarditis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Phlebitis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Pipes and equipment, underground, for conveying products, requirements 34 

Plans — 

and specifications of plants to accompany applications for inspection 9 

for remodeling and for new structures, submission of 15 

Polyarthritis in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Pork- 
sausage, requirements in trade labels 45 

trichinae in, requirements in manufacture of products o-, 

Post-mortem inspection — 

disposal of diseased carcasses and parts i^ 

facilities to be provided by establishments 14 

general requirements 22-25 



INDEX. 95 

Page. 

Poultry feed, condemned meat allowed in manufacture of 33 

Pregnancy — 

cases at ante-mortem inspection, disposal of 22 

in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 33 

Preparation and reinspection of meat and products 48-54 

Preservative stamps and certificates for export products, requirements 58 

Preservatives — 

in export products, requirements 51 

in foreign meat, etc. , conditions of entry 69, 77 

in meat food products, requirements 50 

prohibited, forbidden to enter establishments 53 

Primal parts — 

definition of term 7 

marking of 38 

unmarked, transporting from establishments 37 

Processing in official establishments, requirements 49 

Pseudo-leukemia in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 

Pyemia in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28, 29 

Babies at ante-mortem, disposal of animals affected 20 

Railroad sickness at ante-mortem, disposal of animals affected 20 

Rats, etc. , in establishments, destruction of 16 

Reinspection — 

and preparation of meat and products 48-54 

of fat entering official establishments 49 

of meat and products brought into official establishments 48^9 

of meat and products, permissible at any time or place 48, 56 

of returned products, receiving dock for 49 

of shipments in transit, waived in cases of emergency 68 

Reloading inspected products in cases of emergency 68 

Rendering condemned carcasses and parts into tallow and lard, method 36 

Report, carriers', of reloading products in cases of emergency 68 

Reporting — 

unsound inspected products found outside establishments 56 

violations of inspection act, etc 12 

Reports of inspection work, requirements 55 

Reshipments of meat, etc. , by jobbers and wholesalers 59, 60 

Retail — 

butchers and dealers, exemption requirements 10 

dealers, exempted, offering uninspected meat in interstate trade, certifi- 
cate required 62 

Retained. See "IT. S. retained." 

Returned products at official establishments, receiving dock for 49 

Room for holding condemned products, requirements 15 

Rooms for inedible products, required to be separate 16 

Sal soda, use in cleansing of tripe 51 

Samples — _ ' 

for official use exempt from transportation requirements 68 

of import products subject to analysis, taking of 77 

of products, etc. , required free of cost 53 

Sanitary requirements in official establishments 15-19 

Sanitation — i 

of ships, cars, etc. , transporting imported meat, requirement 77 j 

reports by employees and inspectors 55 

Sarcoma in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 29 , 

Sausage — 

casings, use of color in 50 

etc. , uncooked, containing pork muscle, requirements 52 

in casings, inspection mark on 38 

labeling of, examples 44, 45 

packed in oil, requirements 52 

pork, requirement in trade labels 45 

with water and cereal 38, 45, 50 

Scab in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30 

Sealing — 

and labeling tank cars, requirements 41 

cars, wagons, etc., conveying imported meat prior to inspection 76 



96 INDEX. 

Seals — Page. 

of condemned tanks, requirement 35 

on cars, breaking in cases of emergency 68 

on -wagons in movement between establishments, breaking of 62 

or stickers, use on containers 42 

Second-band tubs, etc. , requirements before using 18 

Septicemia in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28, 29 

Shipments — See also Transportation . 

between official establishments, notification of 62 

of inspected products, diversion of in case of emergency 68 

Ships, cars, etc., transporting import meat, sanitation of 77 

Skin diseases in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 30, 31 

Skins of diseased animals, conditions of removal 24 

Soda — 

benzoate, in products, labeling of 47, 50 

bicarbonate, use in preparation of fats 51 

sal, use in cleansing of tripe 51 

Stamps — 

and certificates, export^ requirements 56-58 

export, method of affixing 57 

marks, labels, etc., counterfeiting or defacing of 56 

State meat inspection, cooperation with 55 

Steam and vapors during inspection, requirements 14, 17 

Stearin, uninspected, offered for export, requirement 58 

Stencils- — 

marks, etc., on previously used containers, requirements 47 

tags, etc., approval required. . ._ 42 

tags, etc., shall not bear inspection legend 42 

Sterilization — 

of canned products, requirements 52 

of carcasses and parts, method 36 

Sternum of carcasses at post-mortem, requirement 24 

Stickers or seals, use on containers 42 

Stillborn and unborn animals at post-mortem, disposal of 33 

Stomachs and paunches used in food products, cleansing of 53 

Subsidiary establishments, separate inspection necessary 11 

Suspects at ante-mortem, marking, removal, slaughter, etc 19-21 

Swine plague. See Hog cholera. 
Tags- 
marks, labels, etc., counterfeiting or defacing of 56 

reject, on insanitary equipment or utensils 19 

stencils, etc., shall not bear inspection legend 42 

Tallow— 

and lard, method of rendering carcasses and parts into 36 

imported, conditions of entry 70 

inedible, marking of 41 

uninspected, offered for export, requirement 58 

Tank- 
cars, labeling, sealing, etc 41 

cars, sanitary requirements 1° 

for condemned products, equipment for sealing 15 

rooms and tanks, requirements 34-35 

Tanking — 

animals condemned at ante-mortem, method j^ 

condemned meat, method ^36 

Tapeworm cysts in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 31 -32 

Temperature of animals at ante-mortem, requirements - 20, 22 

Tetanus at ante-mortem, disposal of animals affected ^ 

Texas fever in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal j° 

Tin containers, number of establishment required thereon 42 

Tinea tonsurans in hogs at post-mortem, disposal 31 

Toilet rooms, etc., in establishments, requirements - 17 

Tonsils not permitted as ingredients of food products 53 

Trade labels. See Labels. 

Transportation — R _ 

certificates for meat and products, text clli^ 

of alleged unsound meat °4 bb 

of imported meat or product prior to and after inspection 75, 81 



INDEX. 97 

Transportation — Continued. Pa S e - 

of inedible fat, etc 67 

of meat and product slaughtered on farm 10, 63 

of meat, etc., as part of foreign movement 59 

of meat, etc., between official establishments 61-62 

of meat, etc., by jobbers and wholesalers 59-60 

of meat, etc., statement to connecting carriers 63-64 

of meat or product imported for personal use 80 

of products for laboratory inspection, exemption 68 

of products too small for marking, requirements 38 

of uninspected meat by retail dealers 62 

of unsound denatured meat or product 66 

Traveling inspectors, duties, etc 9 

Trichinae in pork, requirements in manufacture of products 52 

Trimmings, meat, foreign, conditions of entry 70 

Tripe, cleansing of, use of sal soda or lime 51 

Trucks for inedible products, requirements 17 

Tuberculin test, reacting animals marked "suspects" at ante-mortem 21 

Tuberculosis — 

etc., affecting employees, requirements 19 

found at post-mortem, disposal of carcasses and meat 25-27 

Unborn and stillborn animals at post-mortem, disposal of 33 

Urticaria in hogs at post-mortem, disposal 31 

"U. S. condemned," definition 6 

"U. S. inspected and condemned," definition 6 

"U. S. inspected and passed," definition 6, 8 

" U. S . inspected and passed under act of June 30, 1906, ' ' three-year provision . . 8 
"U.S. refused entry"— 

conditions of marking on imported products 77 

definition 6 

"U. S. rejected " tag on insanitary equipment or utensils 19 

"U. S. retained"— 

definition 6 

room, provision for 15 

tag on reinspected products, procedure 48 

tags, use at post-mortem inspection 23 

"U. S. suspect," definition 6 

Utensils, insanitary, condemnation of 19 

Vaccine — 

animals at ante-mortem inspection, disposal of 22 

lesions, unhealed, in carcasses at post-mortem, disposal 28 

Vapors and steam dming inspection, requirements 14, 17 

Veal loaf, requirement in trade labels 45 

Vermin in establishments, destruction of 16 

Violations of inspection act, etc., reporting 12 

Virus, rat, not allowed in establishments 16 

Wagons in establishments, sanitary requirements, etc 18, 62 

Water — 

added to lard, compound, or substitute, not permitted 51 

and cereal in sausage 38, 45, 50 

supplies in establishments, requirements 16 

Weasands of carcasses infested with tapeworm cysts, disposal 31 

Weight, etc., of contents of packages, requirements 47 

Wholesalers and jobbers, interstate shipments by 59, 60 

Withdrawal of inspection, conditions 12 

Wrappers — 

cloth, inspection mark on 40 

cloth, on export products, stamping of 57 

etc., use of stickers or seals on 42 

Wrecks, railroad, diversion and reloading of products 68 

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